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oapen-20.500.12657-859912023-12-06T19:50:35Z Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting Walton, Chris Richard Wagner Conducting essays Musical interpretation Wagnerian art Tempo Transition Conductors Musical practices Critical analysis Music history bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music & musicology bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music::AVH Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, vocabulary, and impact. Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von Bülow, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch, and their many notable protégés, a Wagnerian art of interpretation became the norm in Europe and America until well into the twentieth century. Wagner's essays on conducting had an even longer impact, and were upheld as central to their art by later generations of conductors from Mahler to Strauss, Furtwängler, Böhm, Scherchen, and beyond. This is the first complete, modern translation of Wagner's conducting essays to appear in English, and the first-ever edition to offer extensive annotations explaining their reception and impact. The accompanying critical essay offers a detailed analysis of Wagner's conducting practices, his innovations in tempo and the art of transition, his creation of a new vocabulary to describe his art, and his success in establishing a school of conductors to promote his works and his aesthetic. A digital edition of this book is openly available thanks to generous support from the Swiss National Science Foundation. 2023-12-06T18:03:34Z 2023-12-06T18:03:34Z 2021 book ONIX_20231206_9781800101890_15 9781800101890 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85991 eng Eastman Studies in Music application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781800101890.pdf 9781800101906.epub Boydell & Brewer University of Rochester Press 10.2307/j.ctv1f2s 10.2307/j.ctv1f2s 2f51bde7-eaae-4e18-9c1c-ad757a12abea 9781800101890 University of Rochester Press 324 Rochester open access
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The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, vocabulary, and impact. Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von Bülow, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch, and their many notable protégés, a Wagnerian art of interpretation became the norm in Europe and America until well into the twentieth century. Wagner's essays on conducting had an even longer impact, and were upheld as central to their art by later generations of conductors from Mahler to Strauss, Furtwängler, Böhm, Scherchen, and beyond. This is the first complete, modern translation of Wagner's conducting essays to appear in English, and the first-ever edition to offer extensive annotations explaining their reception and impact. The accompanying critical essay offers a detailed analysis of Wagner's conducting practices, his innovations in tempo and the art of transition, his creation of a new vocabulary to describe his art, and his success in establishing a school of conductors to promote his works and his aesthetic. A digital edition of this book is openly available thanks to generous support from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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