| Wagner and Russia Contributor(s): Bartlett, Rosamund (Author), Kelly, Catriona (Editor), Cross, Anthony (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521440718 ISBN-13: 9780521440714 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1995 Annotation: Wagner is often held to have exerted a greater impact on modern culture than any other artist, yet the history of the reception of his works in Russia has until now remained largely unexplored. This book, which draws extensively on unpublished archival materials and other contemporary sources, aims to show that in certain important respects, Wagner's music and ideas found more fertile ground in Russia than anywhere else in Europe. Beginning with the first mention of Wagner's name in the Russian press in 1841, and ending almost 150 years later when the composer was finally rehabilitated during the years of glasnost, this study provides the first detailed account of Wagner's visit to Russia in 1863, and a history of the productions of his works in Russia both before and after the Revolution (including radical stagings by Meyerhold and Eisenstein). The book pays special attention to Wagner's important influence on the Russian Modernist movement, focusing particularly on his impact on the leading Symbolist writers, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Andrey Bely and Aleksandr Blok. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Music |
| Dewey: 782.109 |
| LCCN: 94007607 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.73" W x 8.8" (1.41 lbs) 436 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the immense influence of the composer Richard Wagner on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian writers, musicians and artists. It contains a history of the production of Wagner's works in Russia and the Soviet Union (by directors including Meyerhold and Eisenstein), an account of Wagner's visit to Russia in 1863, and a detailed investigation of the impact of his music and ideas on the Russian Modernist movement. The last two chapters explore the fate of Wagner's works after the 1917 Revolution, when he was first hailed but then reviled, and finally rehabilitated during the years of glasnost. |