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Jesus of Nazareth and other writings

Near the end of his life, Richard Wagner supervised the publication of his collected writings, providing an extensive view of his thoughts about art and politics from his youth to his final period of triumph. After his death, there was still more to be told: his admirers discovered a large number of writings he had forgotten, misplaced, never published, or had chosen to omit from his collected works. This volume, the last of eight volumes now reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press, collects the most illuminating of those works. The title work, "Jesus of Nazareth," was written in 1848 or 1849; its composition coincided with the most widespread own revolutionary ideals, thoroughly justified (or so he thought) by Jesus and the early Church. At the time Wagner considered Jesus as a revolutionary leader whose struggles with authority and traditions were much like his own. The opening work is "Siegfried's Death," a poem written in 1848 that set the tone for his most famous operatic work, the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. Whole sections of the poem were later incorporated into the fourth Ring opera, Gotterdammerung, but the differences are as revealing as the carryover. The essays that Wagner published in journals but saw fit to exclude from his Gesammelte Schriften might have embarrassed the elderly sage but are key documents to Wagner's activities in his revolutionary period. For example, his ardently prorevolutionary essay, "The Revolution," would have displeased the wealthy patrons of his later years. This edition includes the full text of volume 8 of the translation of Wagner's works published in 1899 for the London Wagner Society
Print Book, English, [1995]
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, [1995]
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxi, 441 pages ; 21 cm
9780803297807, 0803297807
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Siegfried's death"
Discarded:
On German opera
Pasticcio
Bellini
Parisian amusements
Parisian fatalities for the German
Letters from Paris, 1841
Halévy and "La Reine de Chypre"
Jottings on the Ninth symphony
Artist and critic
Greeting from Saxony to the Viennese
On E. Devrient's "History of German acting"
Theatre reform
Man and established society
The revolution
Invitation to the production of "Tristan in Munich"
Posthumous:
"The Saracen woman"
Sketch for "The apostles' love-feast"
"Jesus of Nazareth"
Sketches and fragments
"Bison books"--Preliminary page
Originally published: Richard Wagner's prose works. Vol. 8, Posthumous, etc. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1899
Includes index