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Index
The Cambridge Companion to Wagner
Cambridge Companions to Music
Copyright
Illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations
Part I Biographical and historical contexts
1 Wagner lives: issues in autobiography
2 Meister Richard’s apprenticeship: the early operas (1833–1840)
3 To the Dresden barricades: the genesis of Wagner’s political ideas
Part II Opera, music, drama
4 The “Romantic operas” and the turn to myth
5 Der Ring des Nibelungen: conception and interpretation
6 Leitmotif, temporality, and musical design in the Ring
7 Tristan und Isolde: essence and appearance
8 Performing Germany in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
9 Parsifal: redemption and Kunstreligion
Part III Ideas and ideology in the Gesamtkunstwerk
10 The urge to communicate: the prose writings as theory and practice
11 Critique as passion and polemic: Nietzsche and Wagner
12 The Jewish question
Part IV After Wagner: influence and interpretation
13 “Wagnerism”: responses to Wagner in music and the arts
14 Wagner and the Third Reich: myths and realities
15 Wagner on stage: aesthetic, dramaturgical, and social considerations
16 Criticism and analysis: current perspectives
Notes
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