The First Hundred Years of Wagner'S Tristan / Elliott Zuckerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zuckerman, Elliott, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1964]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Explores Wagner's Tristan, from the writing and launching of the music, to its first performance and how it affected the people associated with it, through the music criticism and theory attached to it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

Chapter I. SCHOPENHAUER, THE MYTH, AND THE MUSIC (.1854-1859)

Chapter II. TO THE FIRST PERFORMANCE (1859-1865)

Chapter III. NIETZSCHE PRO TRISTAN (1868-1888)

Chapter IV. WAGNER AND TRISTAN IN PARIS (1850-1900)

Chapter V. LOVE AND DEATH IN VENICE (1883-1933)

Chapter VI. TO THE FINAL PERFORMANCE

Appendix A: THE DATES OF THE FIRST PERFORMAΝCES OF WAGNER'S MUSIC-DRAMAS IN THE MAJOR OPERATIC CITIES

Appendix B: A NOTE ON SWINBURNE AND THE SEA

Appendix C: A NOTE ON JOYCE AND ELIOT

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89389-2

OCLC:

1100434451