Wagner and Russia

ISBN-13: 9780521440714 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 436 str.

Rosamund Bartlett; Catriona Kelly; Professor Anthony Cross

Opis

This book explores the immense influence of the composer Richard Wagner on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian writers, musicians and artists. It contains a history of the production of Wagner's works in Russia and the Soviet Union (by directors including Meyerhold and Eisenstein), an account of Wagner's visit to Russia in 1863, and a detailed investigation of the impact of his music and ideas on the Russian Modernist movement. The last two chapters explore the fate of Wagner's works after the 1917 Revolution, when he was first hailed but then reviled, and finally rehabilitated during the years of glasnost.

Recenzje

'Impressive … well-researched survey of the impact of Wagner in Russia.' BBC Music Magazine

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Wagner and Nineteenth-Century Russia: 1. Reception and performance history, 1841–1863; 2. Reception and performance history, 1863–1890; Part II. Wagner and Russian Modernism: 3. Reception and performance history, 1890–1917; 4. Wagner and the Russian Symbolists: Vyacheslav Ivanov; 5. Wagner and the Russian Symbolists: Bely, Medtner and Ellis; 6. Wagner and the Russian Symbolists: Aleksandr Blok; Part III. Wagner and Soviet Russia: 7. Reception and performance history, 1917–1941; 8. Reception and performance history, 1941–1991; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.