Richard Wagner's Beethoven (1870) - 9781843839583

Richard Wagner's Beethoven (1870)A New Translation\nAuthor(s): Roger Allen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781843839583, 978-1843839583\nSynopsis\nIndispensable reading for historians and musicologists as well as those interested in Wagner's philosophy and the aesthetics of music.\n\nDespite the enormous and accelerating worldwide interest in Wagner leading to the bicentenary of his birth in 2013, his prose writings have received scant scholarly attention. Wagner's book-length essay on Beethoven, written to celebrate the centenary of Beethoven's birth in 1870, is really about Wagner himself rather than Beethoven. It is generally regarded as the principal aesthetic statement of the composer's later years, representing a reassessment ofthe ideas of the earlier Zurich writings, especially Oper und Drama, in the light of the experience gained through the composition of Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von.