This book analyzes the lifelong impact of Beethoven's music on Wagner and its importance for his conception of music drama. Kropfinger charts and scrutinizes Wagner's early responses to the composer and considers his experience as a conductor of Beethoven's music. A discussion of the Romantic "Beethoven image" leads to a careful study of Wagner's aesthetic writings, including his "programmatic explanations," the text "Concerning Franz Liszt's symphonic poems," and his Beethoven centenary essay. The penultimate chapter addresses Wagner's theory and practice of music drama, which he came to regard as the preordained successor to the Beethoven symphony. By analyzing special terms--such as "Leitmotiv"--Wagner's structural view of musical drama comes to the fore; it is a view that deepens not only our understanding of musical drama as a "hybrid" genre of art but also of purely musical structure and forms that Wagner sought to outdo.
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"...a valuable survey of the effects of Wagner's lifelong preoccupation with Beethoven." Edward Lippman, Opera Quarterly
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Original Language: German
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In 1869 Wagner successfully requested a copy of Waldmuller's portrait of Beethoven, which was owned by the publishers Breitkopf & Hartel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
patriarchal melody, contrasting derivation, symphonic ambition, plastic motifs, infinite melody, absolute melody, poco maestoso, coherent melody, orchestral melody, programmatic explanations, main musical idea, verse melody, poetic object, sharp minor quartet, absolute music, poetic intention, periodic construction, instrumental composer, purely instrumental music, leitmotif technique, symphonic writing, thematic construction, poetic aim, centenary essay, ring motif Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ninth Symphony, Beethoven's Ninth, Faust Overture, Wagner's Beethoven, Seventh Symphony, Carl Dahlhaus, Happy Evening, Der Fliegende, Hans von Billow, Red Pocket-Book, Die Wahl, Fifth Symphony, Richard Wagner, Theodor Uhlig, Thomas Mann, Alfred Lorenz, Arnold Schmitz, Guido Adler, Neue Zeitschrift, The New Grove Wagner, Beethoven's Fifth, Eduard Hanslick, Apparently Wagner, Cosima Wagner, Egon Voss New!
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In 1869 Wagner successfully requested a copy of Waldmuller's portrait of Beethoven, which was owned by the publishers Breitkopf & Hartel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
patriarchal melody, contrasting derivation, symphonic ambition, plastic motifs, infinite melody, absolute melody, poco maestoso, coherent melody, orchestral melody, programmatic explanations, main musical idea, verse melody, poetic object, sharp minor quartet, absolute music, poetic intention, periodic construction, instrumental composer, purely instrumental music, leitmotif technique, symphonic writing, thematic construction, poetic aim, centenary essay, ring motif Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ninth Symphony, Beethoven's Ninth, Faust Overture, Wagner's Beethoven, Seventh Symphony, Carl Dahlhaus, Happy Evening, Der Fliegende, Hans von Billow, Red Pocket-Book, Die Wahl, Fifth Symphony, Richard Wagner, Theodor Uhlig, Thomas Mann, Alfred Lorenz, Arnold Schmitz, Guido Adler, Neue Zeitschrift, The New Grove Wagner, Beethoven's Fifth, Eduard Hanslick, Apparently Wagner, Cosima Wagner, Egon Voss New!
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- Opera and Drama by Richard Wagner on 41 pages
- My Life by Richard Wagner on 32 pages
- Tristan and Isolde: English National Opera Guide 6 (English National Opera Guides) by Richard Wagner on 9 pages
- The New Grove Wagner by John Deathridge on 5 pages
- Esthetics of Music by Carl Dahlhaus on 4 pages
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- Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) by Thomas S. Grey on 9 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Glenn Stanley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (AMS Studies in Music) by Lawrence M. Zbikowski on page 34, and Back Matter
- Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) by Daniel Chua on page 3, and Back Matter
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Nicholas Cook in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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