Kultur

Richard Wagners fifteen-hour operatic cycle The Ring of the Nibelung ends with this great music drama. Michael Tanners essay tackles the scale and meaning not just of this work but of Wagners whole undertaking, showing that Gtterdmmerung is for al...

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These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. More than any other work in the operatic repertory, Parsifal demands a ...

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Das Rheingold, the opening of Wagner's four-part Ring of Nibelung, stands out as more genteel and picturesque than the others. But it immediately establishes the huge scale of the overall work, and the extraordinary musical language that will...

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Richard Strauss turned his genius to opera at the turn of the twentieth century, and this guide contains the texts and introductions to his first two masterpieces in what was, for him, a new genre. Despite obvious similarities both operas consisti...

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What can explain Wagner's obsession with Tannhauser, an opera which he first conceived in 1845 and still considered unfinished at his death in 1883? The subject is the struggle of a man torn between erotic love and spiritual fulfilment, betwe...

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In 1972 Elias Canetti said that 'with Wozzeck Buchner achieved the most complete revolution in the whole of literature'. The same can be said of Berg's opera, as revolutionary in the history of music - and opera in particular - in t...

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The legend of the Swan Knight who rescues a princess from the forces of pagan evil is one of the foundation myths of Christian Europe. Lohengrin's transformed Wagner into an international figure almost overnight, and it remained his most popu...

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Die Violinschule "Schritt für Schritt" besteht aus Übungsbüchern mit CDs und basiert auf Dr. Suzukis "Muttersprachenmethode". Sie ist allen jungen Geigenschülern, deren Eltern und Lehrern gewidmet. Von Anfan...

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Die Violinschule "Schritt für Schritt" besteht aus Übungsbüchern mit CDs und basiert auf Dr. Suzukis "Muttersprachenmethode". Sie ist allen jungen Geigenschülern, deren Eltern und Lehrern gewidmet. Von Anfan...

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Originally published in 1766, the "Laocoon" has been called the first modern attempt to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry, and its author, Lessing, the first modern esthetician. Lessing invented the modern concept of the a...

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Die Idee einer universalen Revolution hat den deutschen Expressionismus ebenso gepraegt wie die vom Neuen Menschen als Erloeser figur. Beide Konzepte finden sich in den expressionistischen Dramen Ernst Tollers und Georg Kaisers, anfangs ekstatisch...

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Das vorliegende Werk enthaelt ein neues aesthetisches System, das auf der spezifischen Empfindung des Einzelnen beruht. Waehrend die Subjektivitaet in der klassischen Aesthetik immer kuenstlich nivelliert und in eine objektive Gesetzmaessigkeit ve...

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In der fruehen Phase seines Werks gilt der Schriftsteller Pavel Kohout als das Sinnbild des tschechischen sozialistischen Realismus. Dies trifft auch fuer sein dramatisches Werk Anfang der fuenfziger Jahre zu. Waehrend die Prosa vor allem des sowj...

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Lessing was a playwright, scholar, poet, archeologist, philosopher, and critic. His genius is evident in the works collected in this volume, which includes the comedy Minna von Barnhelm, the tragedy Emilia, Galotti, Nathan the Wise, The Jews (and ...

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Rudolf Steiner wrote four mystery dramas intended to portray the spiritual path of self-knowledge as described by spiritual science, or Anthroposophy. Those plays are not merely symbolic but realistic depictions in a spiritual sense. In this book,...

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"A tone is at the foundation of everything in the physical world." This is one of many astonishing statements made by Rudolf Steiner in this collection of seven lectures on the inner realities of music. These lectures are an unusual treasure as th...

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8 lectures, Dornach & Oslo, May 18 - June 9, 1923 (CW 276) "Art, always a daughter of the Divine, has become estranged from her parent.... We should not mock scientific materialism and naturalistic art. These have their place in human culture...

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Although trained as a scientist and a philosopher, Rudolf Steiner always placed a high value on the practice of art and always worked artistically: whatever he did was done with great artistry. Furthermore, as a spiritual teacher, Steiner's ideal ...

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In this volume, first published in German in 1927, Walter Curt Behrendt presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Behrendt calls on architects to return to basic geometries and to express the new soci...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, famous for her novels, aphorisms, novellas, and diary writing, authored twenty-six plays. The plays selected for this volume are one-act comedies dating from late 1880s to 1900. In each play, a man and a woman who loved...

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A companion volume to Letzte Chancen, this edition will introduce readers to two virtually unknown tragedies by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Maria Stuart in Schottland. Historische Tragdie; and Marie Roland. Trauerspiel in fnf Aufzgen. Marie von Eb...

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