Richard Wagner and His World

Preface and Acknowledgments ixPermissions xvPART I: ESSAYSFrom Page to Stage: Wagner as Regisseur 3KATHERINE SYERWagner and Liszt: Elective Affinities 27KENNETH HAMILTONFrom Opera to Music Drama: Nominal Loss, Titular Gain 65LYDIA GOEHREine Kapitulation: Aristophanic Operetta as Cultural Warfare 87in 1870THOMAS S. GREYA Note on Tristan's Death Wish 123KAROL BERGERGuides for Wagnerites: Leitmotifs and Wagnerian Listening 133CHRISTIAN THORAUGerman Jews and Wagner 151LEON BOTSTEINPART II: BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTSWilhelmine Schroder-Devrient and Wagner's Dresden 201CLAIRE VON GLUEMER, HENRY CHORLEYTRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREYCatulle Mendes Visits Tribschen 230CATULLE MENDESTRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREYRecollections of Villa Wahnfried from Wagner's American Dentist 237NEWELL SILL JENKINSINTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREYPART III: TOWARD A MUSIC OF THE FUTURE, 1840-1860The Overture to Tannhauser 251FRANZ LISZTINTRODUCED, EDITED, AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID TRIPPETTTRANSLATED BY JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHTLetters to a Young Composer About Wagner 269JOHANN CHRISTIAN LOBEINTRODUCED, EDITED, AND TRANSLATED BY DAVID TRIPPETTFranz Brendel's Reconciliation Address 311FRANZ BRENDELINTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY JAMES DEAVILLETRANSLATED BY JAMES DEAVILLE AND MARY A. CICORAPART IV: WAGNER AND PARISWagner Admires Meyerbeer (Les Huguenots) 335RICHARD WAGNERTRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREYDebacle at the Paris Opera: 347Tannhauser and the French Critics, 1861OSCAR COMETTANT, PAUL SCUDOTRANSLATED BY THOMAS S. GREYINTRODUCED BY ANNEGRET FAUSERANNOTATED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER AND THOMAS S. GREYThe Revue wagnerienne: Symbolism, Aestheticism, 372and GermanophiliaJ. K. HUYSMANS, TEODOR DE WYZEWA, EDOUARD DUJARDININTRODUCED BY STEVEN HUEBNERSELECTIONS TRANSLATED BY BRENDAN KING AND CHARLOTTE MANDELLPART V: THE BAYREUTH ERAPress Releases from the Bayreuth Festival, 1876: 391An Early Attempt at Spin ControlJ. ZIMMERMANNINTRODUCED, TRANSLATED, AND ANNOTATED BY NICHOLAS VAZSONYIHanslick contra Wagner: 409"The Ring Cycle Comes to Vienna" and"Parsifal Literature"EDUARD HANSLICKTRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREYHans von Wolzogen's Parsifal (1887) 426HANS VON WOLZOGENTRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND EDITED BY MARY A. CICORACosima Wagner's Bayreuth 435RICHARD POHL, ARTHUR SEIDL, EUGEN GURA, ARNOLD SCHERING, HEINRICH CHEVALLEYTRANSLATED BY MARY A. CICORAINTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID BRECKBILLPART VI: THE COMPLETE PROGRAM NOTES OF RICHARD WAGNERWagner Introduces Wagner (and Beethoven): 479Program Notes Written for Concert Performances by and of Richard Wagner, 1846-1880RICHARD WAGNERTRANSLATED, ANNOTATED, AND INTRODUCED BY THOMAS S. GREYBeethoven's Ninth SymphonyBeethoven's Eroica SymphonyBeethoven's Coriolan OvertureOverture to TannhauserOverture to Der fliegende HollanderPrelude to LohengrinTannhauserLohengrinL. van Beethoven, String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1 and Conclusion ("Transfiguration")Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Preludes to Acts 1 and 3GotterdammerungDie WalkureParsifal: Prelude to Act 1Index 523Notes on the Contributors 539