Wagner and Russia / Rosamund Bartlett.
| Author/creator | Bartlett, Rosamund |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
| Description | xx, 405 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge studies in Russian literature Cambridge studies in Russian literature. ^A176212 |
| Contents | Wagner and nineteenth-century Russia: Reception and performance history, 1841-1863. Russia encounters the 'music of the future' ; Wagner's visit to Russia ; Wagner's concerts in the Russian press -- Reception and performance history, 1863-1890. The first Russian Wagner productions ; Bayreuth and its Russian critics ; The first performances of the Ring in Russia ; Wagner and nineteenth-century Russian literature -- Wagner and Russian modernism: Reception and performance history, 1890-1917. The role of Russkaya muzykal'naya gazeta ; Wagner and the 'silver age' of Russian culture ; The first Russian Ring and the rise of Russian Wagnerism ; Meyerhold's production of Tristan und Isolde ; From Wagnerism to Wagnerovshchina ; Wagner and Russian music in the pre-revolutionary period -- Wagner and the Russian symbolists: Vyacheslav Ivanov. Wagner in Ivanov's life ; Ivanov's concepts of music ; Wagner and Russian symbolism ; Ivanov's art of the future ; Wagner in Ivanov's poetry -- Wagner and the Russian symbolists: Bely, Medtner and Ellis. Music dramas in prose: Bely's 'Symphonies' ; Medtner and Bely: a Wagnerian friendship ; The slaying of the dragon: Bely as Siegfried ; Bely, Medtner, Ellis and Musaget ; Ellis and the 'Russian Wagner' ; Bely, anthroposophy and the search for the grail -- Wagner and the Russian symbolists: Aleksandr Blok. Wagner in Blok's life ; The forging of the sword: Wagnerian images in Blok's poetry ; Wagner and the regeneration of Russian theatre -- Wagner and Soviet Russia: Reception and performance history, 1917-1941. The renaissance of Wagner ; Wagner and art for the people ; Wagner productions in the age of Constructivism ; Wagner and the cultural revolution: the problem of ideology ; Wagner and the Nazi-Soviet pact: Eisenstein's Die Walküre ; Wagner and Russian literature during the pre-war Soviet period -- Reception and performance history, 1941-1991. From the Zhdanovshchina to the 'thaw' ; From the Brezhnev years to glasnost ; Wagner and Russian literature during the post-war Soviet period. |
| Abstract | Wagner is often held to have exerted a greater impact on modern culture than any other artist, yet the history of the reception of his works in Russia has until now remained largely unexplored. This book, which draws extensively on unpublished archival materials and other contemporary sources, aims to show that in certain important respects, Wagner's music and ideas found more fertile ground in Russia than anywhere else in Europe. Beginning with the first mention of Wagner's name in the Russian press in 1841, and ending almost 150 years later when the composer was finally rehabilitated during the years of glasnost, this study provides the first detailed account of Wagner's visit to Russia in 1863, and a history of the productions of his works in Russia both before and after the Revolution (including radical stagings by Meyerhold and Eisenstein). The book pays special attention to Wagner's important influence on the Russian Modernist movement, focusing particularly on his impact on the leading Symbolist writers, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Andrey Bely and Aleksandr Blok. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-400) and index. |
| LCCN | 94007607 |
| ISBN | 0521440718 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.W13 B195 1995 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |