Bibliograph

The sorcerer of Bayreuth, Richard Wagner, his work, and his world, Barry Millington

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Label

The sorcerer of Bayreuth, Richard Wagner, his work, and his world, Barry Millington

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The sorcerer of Bayreuth

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

793726592

Responsibility statement

Barry Millington

Sub title

Richard Wagner, his work, and his world

Table Of Contents

Father of the man : paternity and childhood -- Learning the craft : youthful apprenticeship -- Earning his keep : first professional appointments -- Under the yoke : Kapellmeister in Dresden -- The eternal wanderer : Der fliegende Holländer -- Desperately seeking Venus : Tannhäuser -- Swansong to traditional opera : Lohengrin -- Revolutionary road : uprising in Dresden -- The Zurich years : Wagner's exile in Switzerland -- The rise and fall of Valhalla : Der Ring des Nibelungen -- 'Most excellent friend' : Franz Liszt -- Muses, mistresses and mother-figures : Wagner's women -- The behemoth of Bayreuth : Wagner's personality -- Always short : Wagner and money -- In the pink : the role of silks and satins in Wagner's life -- 'My adored and angelic friend' : Ludwig II -- Fatal attraction : Tristan und Isolde -- 'Art is what matters here' : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -- Grit in the oyster : the role of anti-Semitism in Wagner's life and work -- Creative spark : sources of inspiration in Wagner's work -- The silent sufferer : Cosima Wagner -- Tribschen idyll : the Lucerne years -- A home for the gods : the Bayreuth project -- Wagner's last card : Parsifal -- Death in Venice : the events of Wagner's last days -- Perfect and imperfect Wagnerites : the spread of the Wagner cult -- Panning for gold : Wagner and cinema -- Swastikas over Bayreuth : Wagner and the Third Reich -- Regime change : the grandsons usher in the era of new Bayreuth -- Renewing the legacy : Bayreuth today and in the future

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