The Operas Of Wagner: Their plots music and history - Softcover

Hadden, Cuthbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1975615700 ISBN 13: 9781975615703

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

This is frankly and avowedly a book for the musical amateur : for the man or woman who wants to hear a Wagner music-drama, and wants to know, first and chiefly, “what it is all about.” Technicalities have been avoided as far as possible, the one aim being to give lovers of opera a clear understanding of the several works in the Wagnerian repertoire, with such facts about their history, about the original sources of their texts, and so on, as seem likely to heighten the listener’s interest and appreciation. Each of the music-dramas dealt with, “Parsifal” excepted, has formed the subject of a separate volume issued by the publishers in a series devoted to the Great Operas. In thus bringing the individual Wagner volumes within one cover, I have tried to eliminate all repetitions and other overlapping matter, and to give the work such unity as is attainable under the circumstances.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1975615700
• ISBN 13: 9781975615703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Kim Doyle