Richard Wagner: Parsifal

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Cambridge University Press, 1981 M08 20 - 163 páginas
In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner's last and strangest opera. The literary sources of this work, its many links with Wagner's life and thought, its libretto, music and stage history, are all thoroughly examined. There is a full commentary, with extensive quotation, on the work's critical history, and finally, a fresh assessment of its place in the Wagner canon and of its unique quality as a music drama that is both modern and Christian. Full references, a bibliography and a discography are provided. A special chapter of musical analysis is contributed by Arnold Whittall.

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The sources
1
Text and synopsis
25
The music
61
Stage history
87
Reactions and critical assessments
103
A proposed interpretation
129
Notes
150
Bibliography
156
Discography
158
Index
161
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