Bibliograph

The music of Richard Wagner, professor Robert Greenberg

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The music of Richard Wagner, professor Robert Greenberg

Language

eng

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videorecording

Main title

The music of Richard Wagner

Oclc number

694886478

Responsibility statement

professor Robert Greenberg

Runtime

Series statement

Great courses. Fine arts & music

Summary

Richard Wagner was one of history's greatest composers, a theater artist of extraordinary genius and vision, and one of the most controversial characters in the entire pantheon of Western art. •As a composer, he rewrote the rules for opera—reenvisioning its musical forms and creating dazzling and unforgettable dramatic tapestries that melded orchestral magnificence with the soaring beauty of the human voice. •As a theater artist, he pioneered the "Gesamtkunstwerk" or "total artwork" that incorporated music, drama, poetry, philosophy, myth, and ritual, building a theater of revolutionary design and creating musical dramas on a scale never before attempted in history. •And, as a self-styled theorist, he pursued an agenda of militant German nationalism, anti-Semitism, elitist prejudice, and unbounded self-glorification in his often troubling philosophical tracts and essays. More than a century after his death, his legacy is still debated, his influence still felt in our very conception of Western music and in the contemporary forms of opera and the complete spectrum of theater and literary arts. Grappling with all of this in the 24 lectures of The Music of Richard Wagner, Great Courses favorite Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances returns with a rich and multifaceted exploration of the trailblazing works and outsized life of this historically pivotal figure

Table Of Contents

Disc 1. The escape from Riga -- London, Paris and Rienzi -- What to do about Germany? -- The rise of German Opera -- Disc 2. The Flying Dutchman (parts 1 & 2) -- Dresden and Tannhäuser (parts 1 & 2)Disc 3. Lohengrin (parts 1 & 2) -- The escape from Dresden, exile and essay -- Tristan and Isolde (part 1) -- Disc 4. Tristan and Isolde (part 2) -- Miracles -- The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (parts 1 & 2)Disc 5. The Ring (parts 1-4) -- Disc 6. The Ring (part 5-6) -- Parsifal (parts 1 & 2)

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live action

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