Chris Walton

Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting (eBook, ePUB)

A New Translation with Critical Commentary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, vocabulary, and impact. Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von Bülow, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch, and their many notable protégés, a Wagnerian art of interpretation became the norm in Europe and America until well into the twentieth century. Wagner's essays on conducting had an even longer impact, and were upheld as central to their art by later generations of conductors from Mahler to Strauss, Furtwängler, Böhm, Scherchen, and beyond. This is the first complete, modern translation of Wagner's conducting essays to appear in English, and the first-ever edition to offer extensive annotations explaining their reception and impact. The accompanying critical essay offers a detailed analysis of Wagner's conducting practices, his innovations in tempo and the art of transition, his creation of a new vocabulary to describe his art, and his success in establishing a school of conductors to promote his works and his aesthetic. A digital edition of this book is openly available thanks to generous support from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Seitenzahl: 319
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800101906
• Artikelnr.: 69496849

Autorenporträt

Chris Walton studied at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Zurich and Munich. He was head of the Music Department of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich for ten years before being appointed chair of music at the University of Pretoria. He moved back to Switzerland in 2008 and lives today in Solothurn. He is an Honorary Professor at Africa Open Institute (Stellenbosch University) and runs two research projects at the Bern University of the Arts for the Swiss National Science Foundation. He has published widely on Austro-German and Swiss music.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: RICHARD WAGNER'S WRITINGS ON CONDUCTING Reminiscences
of Spontini Report on the Performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in
Dresden in 1846 About Conducting On Performing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
PART II: CRITICAL ESSAY Richard Wagner and the Art of Conducting