Wagner in Russia Poland and the Czech Lands Musical Literary and Cultural Perspectives 1st Edition by Stephen Muir ,Anastasia Belina Johnson ISBN 1138276669 978-1138276666

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Author:Stephen Muir ,Anastasia Belina Johnson

Richard Wagner has arguably the greatest and most long-term influence on wider European culture of all nineteenth-century composers. And yet, among the copious English-language literature examining Wagner’s works, influence, and character, research into the composer’s impact and role in Russia and Eastern European countries, and perceptions of him from within those countries, is noticeably sparse. Wagner in Russia, Poland and the Czech Lands aims to redress imbalance and stimulate further research in this rich area. The eight essays are divided in three parts – one each on Russia, the Czech lands and Poland – and cover a wide historical span, from the composer’s first contacts with and appearances in these regions, through to his later reception in the Communist era. The contributing authors examine his influences in a wide range of areas such as music, literary and epistolary heritage, politics, and the cultural histories of Russia, the Czech lands, and Poland, in an attempt to establish Wagner’s place in a part of Europe not commonly addressed in studies of the composer

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1
‘One can learn a lot from Wagner, including how not to write operas’: Sergey Taneyev and his Road to Wagner
Anastasia Belina-Johnson

Chapter 2
‘The end of opera itself’: Rimsky-Korsakov and Wagner
Stephen Muir

Chapter 3
How Russian was Wagner? Russian Campaigns to Defend or Destroy the German Composer during the Great War (1914–1918)
Rebecca Mitchell

Chapter 4
Prophecy of a Revolution: Aleksey Losev on Wagner’s Aesthetic Outlook
Vladimir Marchenkov

Chapter 5
The quotation is adapted from an interview with Dvořák given to Paul Pry of The Sunday Times, 10 May 1885. The complete interview is reprinted in an appendix to (ed.), Rethinking Dvořák: Views from Five Countries (Oxford, 1966).
Jan Smaczny

Chapter 6
Wagnerism in Moravia: Janáček’s First Opera, Šárka
Michael Ewans

Chapter 7
‘Where the King Spirit becomes manifest’: Stanisław Wyspiański in Search of the Polish Bayreuth
Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn

Chapter 8
The Reception of Wagner’s Music and Ideas in Poland during the Communist Years (1945–1989)
Magdalena Dziadek

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