Wagner and Venice Fictionalized

Variations on a Theme
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-58046-410-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 89, 370 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

The first account of how Wagner's last years and his death in Venice have been mythologized in novels and other works of the creative imagination.

The vast literature about Richard Wagner and his works includes a surprising number of fictional works, including novels, plays, satires, and an opera. Many of these deal with his last years and his death in Venice in 1883 -- andeven a fabricated eleventh-hour romance.

These fictional treatments -- many presented here in English for the first time -- reveal a striking evolution in the way that Wagner's character and reputation have been viewed over more than a century. They offer insights into changing contexts in Western intellectual and cultural history. And they make clear how much Wagner's associations with Venice have become part of the accumulated mythology of "thefloating city."

John Barker's Wagner and Venice Fictionalized: Variations on a Theme will be of interest to all lovers of opera, Venice, and European culture generally.

John W. Barker is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in medieval (including Venetian) history. He is also a passionate music lover and record collector, and an active music critic and journalist.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barker, John W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikwissenschaft: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
Chronology: Wagner in Venice, 1882, 1882-83
Prologue: The Seals of Fiction

1. Vernon Lee (1890)
2. Gabriele D'Annunzio (1900)
3. Thomas Mann (1912)
4. Franz Werfel (1924)
5. Gustav Renker (1933)
6. Zdenko von Kraft (1943)
7. Joachim von Kurenberg 91947)
8. Egon Gunther (1993)
9. Bernd Schunemann (1996)
10. Herbert Rosendorfer (1999/2001)
11. Graham Billing (1991)
12. Joachim Kohler (2006)
13. Jean-Claude Carriere/Jonathan Harvey (2007)
14. Ray Furness (2008)

Epilogue: A Retrospect
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John W. Barker is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in medieval (including Venetian) history. He is also a passionate music lover and record collector, and an active music critic and journalist.