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Bayreuth
Bayreuth , city (1994 pop. 73,390), capital of Upper Franconia, Bavaria, S Germany, on the Red Main River. It is an industrial center; its manufactures include machinery, textiles, chemicals, and pianos. Founded in the mid-12th cent., Bayreuth belonged to a branch of the Hohenzollern family from... Read more |
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Bayreuth Festival
Anne Evans Opera singer Before her retirement from the stage in 2003, Dame Anne Evans was one of opera's best-known interpreters of the formidable Teutonic heroine. For a number of years the soprano was the leading Brünnhilde, the Valkyrie princess from German composer... Read more |
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Houston Stewart Chamberlain The English-born German writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927) formulated the most important theory of Teutonic superiority in pre-Hitlerian German thought. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was born in Southsea, England, on Sept. 9, 1855. He was the son of an... Read more |
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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner 1813-83, German composer, b. Leipzig. Life and Work Wagner was reared in a theatrical family, had a classical education, and began composing at 17. He studied harmony and the works of Beethoven and in 1833 became chorus master of the theater at Würzburg, the first of a series... Read more |
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Kirsten Flagstad
Kirsten Flagstad When music lovers imagine a female opera singer of the Teutonic sort, they may imagine a performer like Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962), who towered above other vocalists attempting the punishing soprano leading roles in the music dramas of German composer Richard... Read more |
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Astrid Varnay
Astrid VarnaySinger Few opera singers have experienced the longevity and critical acceptance of Astrid Varnay. From her debut in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre in 1941 to her retirement in 1995, Varnay completed 200 performances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City and performed at the... Read more |
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Wagnerian
Wagnerian having the enormous dramatic scale and intensity of an opera by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813–83). He developed an operatic genre which he called music drama, synthesizing music, drama, verse, legend, and spectacle.Wagner was forced into exile after supporting the... Read more |
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Ernest Newman
Ernest Newman 1868-1959, English music critic. He joined the staff of the Manchester Guardian in 1905, the Birmingham Daily Post in 1906, the London Observer in 1919, and The Times of London in 1920. Outstanding among his writings is his Life of Richard Wagner (4 vol., 1933-46, repr.... Read more |
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Valkyries
Valkyries , in Germanic mythology, warrior maidens of Odin. They presided over battles, chose those who were to die, and brought the souls of the dead heroes back to Valhalla . Chief among them was Brunhild . They were usually represented as riding through the air on horseback, helmeted and... Read more |
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Honus Wagner
Honus Wagner Regarded by most experts as the greatest shortstop in baseball history, Honus Wagner (1874-1955) was the game's most complete star in the early twentieth century. Known as the "Flying Dutchman" for his speedy base-running, Wagner was a perennial batting champion and a versatile... Read more |
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Selected Letters of Richard Wagner.
WAGNER'S SOUR NOTES...VIRTUE of a good letter-collection...figure. As the Selected Letters of Richard Wagner (Stewart...Jews. These letters are fascinating...In an 1843 letter to Robert Schumann...number of his letters complain that... |
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Wagner: Notes and Letters
SELECTED LETTERS OF RICHARD WAGNER Translated and edited By Stewart...Millington Norton. 1030 pp. $35 RICHARD WAGNER always arouses mixed emotions...PERHAPS the most interesting run of letters is the series that Wagner wrote to Franz Liszt in the years... |
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What to read and hear
...and self serving. In Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, edited by Stewart...still Newman's The Wagner Operas (Princeton...Jungian interpretation, Wagners Ring and its Symbols...World End. A Study of Wagner's Ring (Oxford paperback... |
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Wagner concert in TA draws little protest
...2001 Headline: Wagner concert in TA...anti-Semite Richard Wagner in Tel...University students of selected chamber music...the event, a letter attacking the...feelings about Wagner, Zuckermann said...controversy over Wagner erupted last summer...them. Keywords: Richard ... |
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Selected Letters.(Review)
Selected Letters. By...arranges the letters chronologically...Some longer letters are shortened...numbers for each letter, notes whether...family. The letters, combined with...Liszt wrote to Richard Wagner, many of which... |
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Robson Books.(The Great Cellists)(The Great Violinists)(Opera Offstage...
...prominent musicians in the fields. Her access to letters, private documents, and archives contributes...stories beyond the creation of almost thirty selected operas. From a story of stowaway Richard Wagner who ran from angry creditors in Latvia to... |
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The French text of Wagner's Das Judentum in Der Musik.(Excerpt)(Obituary)
ABSTRACT If Wagner's notorious...the dedicatee he selected for the second...down "R," for Richard, which is what we find in the letter to Karl Ritter...1850, (2) a letter written four days...ultimately German than Richard. Whatever his... |
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Recalling a musical 'colossus'.(BOOKS)
...life drama of Richard Wagner, Hans von...Liszt, who, with Wagner, appealed to the...Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner and Schumann, and...from which Bulow selected Three Musical Sketches...astonishing prenuptial letter from Bulow to Liszt...visit the quarreling Wagners en route to ... |
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Third Reich Conductors: Talent vs. Morality; Nazi Germany's Conductors
...conducting the prelude to Wagner's "Die Meistersinger...where Winifred Wagner, the English-born widow of Richard Wagner's son Siegfried...Schilling was personally selected by Hitler to organize...a sadly eloquent letter written to Furtwaengler... |
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Costs of abuse scandal becoming clearer: dioceses release information on...
...independent audit agency selected by the U.S. bishops...board, he said. In a letter published in the Sept...John Ryan, 79, and Richard Wagner, 68, date back to the...and 1984 respectively. Wagner had been serving in parish... |
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