Richard Wagner and His World

Preface and Acknowledgments ix Permissions xv PART I: ESSAYS From Page to Stage: Wagner as Regisseur 3 KATHERINE SYER Wagner and Liszt: Elective Affinities 27 KENNETH HAMILTON From Opera to Music Drama: Nominal Loss, Titular Gain 65 LYDIA GOEHR Eine Kapitulation: Aristophanic Operetta as Cultural Warfare 87 in 1870 THOMAS S. GREY A Note on Tristan's Death Wish 123 KAROL BERGER Guides for Wagnerites: Leitmotifs and Wagnerian Listening 133 CHRISTIAN THORAU German Jews and Wagner 151 LEON BOTSTEIN PART II: BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTS Wilhelmine Schroder-Devrient and Wagner's Dresden 201 CLAIRE VON GLUMER, HENRY CHORLEY TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY Catulle Mendes Visits Tribschen 230 CATULLE MENDES TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY Recollections of Villa Wahnfried from Wagner's American Dentist 237 NEWELL SILL JENKINS INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY PART III: TOWARD A MUSIC OF THE FUTURE, 1840-1860 The Overture to Tannhauser 251 FRANZ LISZT INTRODUCED, EDITED, AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID TRIPPETT TRANSLATED BY JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT Letters to a Young Composer About Wagner 269 JOHANN CHRISTIAN LOBE INTRODUCED, EDITED, AND TRANSLATED BY DAVID TRIPPETT Franz Brendel's Reconciliation Address 311 FRANZ BRENDEL INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY JAMES DEAVILLE TRANSLATED BY JAMES DEAVILLE AND MARY A. CICORA PART IV: WAGNER AND PARIS Wagner Admires Meyerbeer (Les Huguenots) 335 RICHARD WAGNER TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY Debacle at the Paris Opera: 347 Tannhauser and the French Critics, 1861 OSCAR COMETTANT, PAUL SCUDO TRANSLATED BY THOMAS S. GREY INTRODUCED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER ANNOTATED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER AND THOMAS S. GREY The Revue wagnerienne: Symbolism, Aestheticism, 372 and Germanophilia J. K. HUYSMANS, TEODOR DE WYZEWA, EDOUARD DUJARDIN INTRODUCED BY STEVEN HUEBNER SELECTIONS TRANSLATED BY BRENDAN KING AND CHARLOTTE MANDELL PART V: THE BAYREUTH ERA Press Releases from the Bayreuth Festival,

Thomas S. Grey is professor of music at Stanford University. His books include "Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts" and "The Cambridge Companion to Wagner".

"Offers much stimulating material, presented in kaleidoscopic fashion, that should be required reading for anyone desiring a more profound insight."--Della Couling, Classical Music Magazine "Grey once again has ferreted out themes and original material on the composer which have not been over-exposed in English translation."--Mike Ashman, Gramophone