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The Music of Richard Wagner

de Robert Greenberg

Sèrie: The Great Courses: Fine Arts and Music (7290), The Great Courses (7290)

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Music. Nonfiction. HTML: In these 24 lectures filled with musical excerpts, enjoy a rich and multifaceted exploration of the trailblazing works and outsized life of this historically pivotal composer. Your immersion in Wagner's art includes the following: The Flying Dutchman (which illustrates several of Wagner's key compositional innovations) Tannh�user (the saga of a medieval knight torn between two worlds) Tristan and Isolde (Wagner's crowning masterpiece) And, of course, The Ring of the Nibelung (arguably the single most ambitious theater work ever created) The sheer outlandishness of Wagner's life makes for an endlessly intriguing story, from his desperate escapades outrunning creditors to his obsessive personal relationships to his utopian artistic schemes. In his writings, letters, and public actions, you investigate the often contradictory - and hypocritical - aspects of his personality. And, reflecting on the nationalist spirit of his time, you track his core desire to make "German Art in the service of a German national identity," even as he created a body of works whose communicative power transcends any national boundary. With Professor Greenberg's passionate and razor-sharp commentary, you'll plumb the fabulous mystery of a man who gave the world something of deeply compelling and universal resonance: music of great genius and a poetry that reveals the depths of the human psyche. .… (més)

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Greenberg does a good job presenting both the excellence of Wagner's music and the repugnance of most of his ideas, weaving it together with the story of the composer's fascinating life. The early lectures are the best and contain a lot more drama as the struggling Wagner moves from one place to another, just a few steps ahead of his creditors. Once we get to the endless Ring cycle, things slow down considerably, with long synopses of its ridiculous plot and perhaps not enough excerpts of the really good parts of its music. Still, to have even a surface of understanding of the Ring or its successor, Parsifal, takes a good deal of explaining, and nobody is better at it than Professor Greenberg. His judgment of Wagner seems more than fair. (

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Music. Nonfiction. HTML:

In these 24 lectures filled with musical excerpts, enjoy a rich and multifaceted exploration of the trailblazing works and outsized life of this historically pivotal composer. Your immersion in Wagner's art includes the following:

The Flying Dutchman (which illustrates several of Wagner's key compositional innovations) Tannh�user (the saga of a medieval knight torn between two worlds) Tristan and Isolde (Wagner's crowning masterpiece) And, of course, The Ring of the Nibelung (arguably the single most ambitious theater work ever created)

The sheer outlandishness of Wagner's life makes for an endlessly intriguing story, from his desperate escapades outrunning creditors to his obsessive personal relationships to his utopian artistic schemes. In his writings, letters, and public actions, you investigate the often contradictory - and hypocritical - aspects of his personality. And, reflecting on the nationalist spirit of his time, you track his core desire to make "German Art in the service of a German national identity," even as he created a body of works whose communicative power transcends any national boundary. With Professor Greenberg's passionate and razor-sharp commentary, you'll plumb the fabulous mystery of a man who gave the world something of deeply compelling and universal resonance: music of great genius and a poetry that reveals the depths of the human psyche.

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