Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting: A New Translation with Critical Commentary (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781648250125)

The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, vocabulary, and impact.

Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von B?ow, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch, and their many notable prot馮駸, a Wagnerian art of interpretation became the norm in Europe and America until well into the twentieth century. Wagner's essays on conducting had an even longer impact, and were upheld as central to their art by later generations of conductors from Mahler to Strauss, Furtw舅gler, Bm, Scherchen, and beyond.

This is the first complete, modern translation of Wagner's conducting essays to appear in English, and the first-ever edition to offer extensive annotations explaining their reception and impact. The accompanying critical essay offers a detailed analysis of Wagner's conducting practices, his innovations in tempo and the art of transition, his creation of a new vocabulary to describe his art, and his success in establishing a school of conductors to promote his works and his aesthetic.

A digital edition of this book is openly available thanks to generous support from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Author: Chris Walton
ISBN-10: 1648250122
ISBN-13: 9781648250125
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2021
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d