Music Books

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

Die Richard Wagner-Gesamtausgabe macht zum ersten Mal das gesamte Schaffen Wagners in zuverlässigen Ausgaben zugänglich. Ein erster Versuch, das Werk Wagners für Wissenschaft und Praxis zu erschließen...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

After the success of his third completed opera 'Rienzi', Wagner turned to putting a topic to music which he had come across in Heinrich Heine's 'Schnabelewopski' fragment a few years before. 'The Flyi...

'Twilight of the Gods', the Third Day, brings Wagner's Ring cycle with an evening and three days, all full-length performances lasting for hours, to an end. Everything that has happened in the parts b...

Wagner's 'Lohengrin' is described as a 'great romantic opera' in which Wagner opens up two completely different worlds for the listener. On the one hand, there is the mystical world of the Knight of t...

This comprehensive introduction to Wagner's opera 'The Mastersingers of Nuremberg' contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples. Kurt Pahlen comments on the work with music-related refe...

Although 'Rhinegold', like any of the following three parts, is a drama on its own, it reveals its entire meaning only as introduction to the complete work. In 'The Nibelung's Ring', Wagner used his o...

'Siegfried' is the Second Day in Wagner's tetralogy 'The Nibelung's Ring'; the world premiere took place in Bayreuth in 1876 as part of the opening ceremony of the festival theatre. In contrast to the...

Completed in 1845, Richard Wagner's romantic opera 'Tannhäuser and the Singing Contest at the Wartburg' pursues the path taken by 'The Flying Dutchman' a few years before: from number opera to through...

Tristan und Isolde ist in der inneren Dimension schwer zu messen. Kein anderes der Musikdramen Wagners ist so völlig auf ein einziges Thema konzentriert, verzichtet so weitgehend auf theatralische Han...

This book, a comprehensive introduction to Richard Wagner's opera 'The Valkyrie', the first evening of the tetralogy 'The Nibelung's Ring', contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples....

'The Nibelung's Ring', this daring cycle of four full-length music dramas, kept the librettist and the composer busy for more than twenty years, from the first ideas until its completion. What was new...

Der Dirigent Ferdinand Leitner (1912–1996) war einer der aktivsten Förderer des musikdramatischen Schaffens von Carl Orff (1895–1982). Als Generalmusikdirektor des Staatstheaters Stuttgart...

Text, Musik, Szene - Das Musiktheater von Carl Orff lautet der Titel eines internationalen wissenschaftlichen Symposiums, das 2007 anlässlich des 25. Todesjahres von Carl Orff vom Orff-Zentrum München...

German language edition of this revised and updated, Ultimate guide to Extreme Metal! With even more bands detailed and dissected, including the biggest names in Grindcore, Gorecore, Pagan Metal, Viki...

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