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  • Wagner as Man Artist

    by Ernest Newman ...
    In this biography, Newman delves into Wagner's early life, tracing his origins and the formative experiences that shaped his musical career. He discusses Wagner's struggles and triumphs, from his initial failures to his eventual rise to prominence as a leading figure in the world of opera. Newman paints a vivid picture of Wagner's character, highlighting his passionate nature, his controversial ... Read more

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  • Life of R Wagner Vol 3

    by Ernest Newman ...
    In the vast literature on Richard Wagner, Ernest Newman's classic four-volume Life remains unsurpassed.Volume III covers the years 1859-66 including the Tannhäuser debacle in Paris, the crisis with Minna, the first production of Tristan und Isolde and the flight from Munich. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Life of R Wagner Vol 2

    by Ernest Newman ...
    In the vast literature on Richard Wagner, Ernest Newman's classic four-volume Life remains unsurpassed.Volume II carries the story from 1848 to 1860. It describes the important, formative years in Wagner's life and reconstructs his role in the Dresden rising of 1849. Newman also discusses the changes that the Ring poem underwent during this period and illuminates Wagner's relations with his wife ... Read more

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  • Life of R Wagner Vol 4

    by Ernest Newman ...
    Ernest Newman's four-volume Life of Wagner, originally published between 1933 and 1947, remains a classic work of biography. The culmination of forty years' research on the composer and his works (Newman's first Study of Wagner was first published in 1899), these books present a detailed portrait of perhaps the most influential, the most controversial and the most frequently reviled composer in ... Read more

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  • Wagner As Man and Artist

    by Ernest Newman ...
    ERNEST NEWMAN was born in 1868. Educated at Liverpool College and Liverpool University, he had intended to enter the Indian Civil Service, but when his health broke down, he went instead, into business in Liverpool. In 1905 he became music critic of the Manchester Guardian and subsequently of the Birmingham Post. In 1920 he began his long career as music critic for the Sunday Times (London). Mr. ... Read more

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  • Seventeen Famous Operas

    by Ernest Newman ...
    “The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.” –Ernest NewmanIn Seventeen Famous Operas, renowned musicologist and music critic Ernest Newman goes beyond simply retelling the plots of the operas he has chosen to feature in this volume. Because for Newman, opera was theater—and he demonstrates that with his in-depth studies of the ... Read more

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  • Life of Richard Wagner, Volume 1: 1813-1848

    by Ernest Newman ...
    From renowned music critic and musicologist Ernest Newman comes the first of four volumes chronicling the life of legendary German composer Richard Wagner. This first volume takes us through the early years of Richard’s life: his birth in Leipzig; his childhood in Dresden and the sparks of his interest in music, opera, and theater; his musical education, including his studies at University of ... Read more

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  • Wagner Operas

    by Ernest Newman ...
    The foremost authority on Wagner presents in this comprehensive volume all that the opera-goer, radio listener, music-love, and confirmed Wagnerite will wish to know about:The Flying DutchmanTannhäuserLohengrinTristan and IsoldeThe Mastersingers of NurembergThe Nibelung’s RingThe RhinegoldThe ValkyrieSiegfriedThe Twilight of the Gods</e... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • More Stories of Famous Operas

    by Ernest Newman ...
    This book contains the definitive treatment of the stories, texts, and music of Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, The Barber of Bagdad, Thaïs, Eugen Onegin, Prince Igor, The Golden Cockerel, Elektra, Orfeo ed Euridice, Lakmé, Les Huguenots, Così fan tutte, The Seraglio, Les Troyens, Don Pasquale, La Juive, Manon, Falstaff, Louise, Pelléas and Mélisande, The Bartered Bride, Die Fledermaus, Romeo and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Berlioz: Romantic and Classic

    by Ernest Newman ...
    It is fairly safe to say that there is no musician about whom people differ so strongly as about Berlioz. His case is, indeed, unique. We are pretty well agreed as to the relative positions of the other men; roughly speaking, all cultivated musicians would put Wagner and Brahms and Beethoven in the first rank of composers, and Mendelssohn, Grieg, and Dvořàk in the second or third. Even in the case ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Musical Motley

    by Ernest Newman ...
    Excerpt:. . . Composition, it is rather curious that while I was writing on our too great readiness to admire everything a classic does, merely because he is a classic, someone in the Times Literary Supplement should have been regarding much the same fallacy--more particularly in poetry and painting--from a slightly different point of view. The thesis of the Times writer is that at this or that ... Read more

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  • Musical Studies

    by Ernest Newman ...
    Two or three years ago Richard Strauss was practically unknown in this country. A few people had heard works of his abroad; a few more had bought his complex scores and worried through them as best they could, mostly deriving from them only the impression that Strauss was getting madder and madder every year. From other and happier climes, where the demand for music is almost as great as the ... Read more

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