Bayreuth: a History of the Wagner Festival - 6 Angebote vergleichen

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Museum of Books.
Yale University Press, 1994 hardcover, dust jacket with faint water stain in rear, slight edge crimping, scuffing, new covers (sharp corners, bright spine titles), clean unmarked text pages, binding tight as new and unread (clean page edge). Inked inscription on blank front page. ... . Shipped in a padded envelope and packaged in bubble wrap.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, worldreaders.
The operatic festival Richard Wagner founded at Bayreuth in 1876 is the oldest, most famous and most influential in the world. Its productions and musical standards have been a model for opera houses everywhere, and Bayreuth has become a place of pilgrimage for music lovers, and the ultimate objective for singers and conductors. The story of the festival is however not just about an opera house but about a family, a society and an art form. The creation of a fervent German chauvinist, Bayreuth came to epitomize the tortured development of the German nation after unification in 1871. The festival became a citadel of racism and reaction, and the cultural showpiece of the Third Reich and Hitler's artistic centre. Here for the first time is a full-scale, serious, narrative account of the festival, based on wide-ranging research and interviews, which explains the political, managerial, social and artistic context of the Festival. It provides candid, sharply-etched portraits of the members of the Wagner family, their friends, enemies and critics, and of the controversy that has characterised it for over a century. Hardcover, Ausgabe: New edition, Label: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1994-05-25, Studio: Yale University Press, Verkaufsrang: 335233.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, HPB-Kansas City, MO, Kansas City, [RE:5].
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Germany's cultural glory - Germany's political shame: the opera festival established by Richard Wagner in 1876 is one of the most intriguing phenomena of modern European cultural history. The oldest and best known of music festivals, Bayreuth was from the beginning not simply a place for model performances of Wagner's works but equally the centre of an ideological cult, with the Festspielhaus its sacred shrine and audiences its devout pilgrims. This book is the first to provide a frank and comprehensive account of the institutions's history and functioning. The core of the study is a critical analysis of the performances and productions, brought alive with illustrations of stage settings, conductors and singers in costume. Around this artistic history is woven the remarkable story of why Wagner established the Festival and how his controversial descendants have managed it after him. At the same time the book traces Bayreuth's connection with the political fate of the German nation. It explains why the Festival became enmeshed in nationalism, racism and fascism until it was ultimately debased into what Thomas Mann labelled 'Hitler's court theatre'. The work concludes with a discussion of the postwar revolutionary productions of Wagner's operas that eventually liberated Bayreuth from its disgraceful political associations and that have made it the most exciting of operatic institutions. Exploring the links among Wagner's art, the Festival, the personalities of the Wagner dynasty and Germany's ideological development, this provocative study provides compelling reading not only for Wagner enthusiasts but also for anyone interested in European intellectual history since the mid-nineteenthcentury.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, More Than Words, MA, Waltham, [RE:4].
Hard cover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Hawking Books, CA, Upland, [RE:4].
Hardcover.