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Richard Wagner: A Life in Music

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by Martin Geck


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  GENERAL INDEX

  RW = Richard Wagner

  WWV = Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis

  Abbate, Carolyn (b. 1955): on Brünnhilde’s peroration, 309; on Tannhäuser’s Narration, 89; on Wotan’s Narration, 212

  Abend-Zeitung, 65

  Aberbach, David Alan (1932–2010), 134

  Adam, Adolphe (1803–56), 371n20

  Adorno, Theodor W. (1903–69), xiv, 313, 315–17; ambivalence toward RW, 255, 315–17; as disappointed admirer, xvii; on the ending of the Ring, 306; innovation in Parsifal, 333; phantasmagoria, 79, 315, 362, 364; on the prelude to Das Rheingold, 178, 179; sonority in Tannhäuser, 85; on Tannhäuser’s Rome Narration, 89; and “untruthfulness” in Tannhäuser, 86

  Writings: In Search of Wagner, 315–17, 398n1; Minima moralia, 104; “Postscript to a Discussion on Wagner,” 306

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC), 103, 151, 159, 161, 359

  Works: Oresteia, 133; Prometheus, 159

  Ahasuerus myth, 17, 50, 51, 71, 81, 288, 345

  Albert, Josef (1825–86), 172

  Amsterdam, 170

  anti-Semitism: as a nineteenth-century phenomenon, 93, 162, 289, 320, 322, 353; its relationship to Wagner’s music dramas, xvi–xvii, 285–87, 326, 328; and Schoenberg, 124; in Wagner’s life, 18, 94, 100, 144, 169, 289, 320, 326; in Wagner’s writings, 14, 19, 20, 43, 66, 124, 142, 147–48, 287, 289

  Antwerp, 104, 170

  Apel, Theodor (1811�
�67), 26

  Aristotle (384–322 BC), 161, 365

  Asmus, Bernd (b. 1959), 347

  Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit (1782–1871), 11, 30, 93, 371n20

  Works: Diamants de la couronne, Les, 358; Fra Diavolo, 32; Muette de Portici, La, 24, 32

  Auerbach, Berthold (1812–82), 267, 288–89

  Works: “Richard Wagner and the Self-Respect of the Jews,” 289; Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten, 288; Spinoza, 288

  Augusta, Princess of Prussia (1811–90), 288

  Aussig (Ústi nad Labem), 84

  Avenarius, Cäcilie née Geyer (1815–93), 2, 3, 4

  Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714–88), 195

  Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750), xvi, 82, 85, 117, 124, 185, 203, 253, 255, 316, 329, 357, 360; and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 279–81, 284

  Works: Art of Fugue, The, xvi, 157, 203; Brandenburg Concerto no. 2, 280; Cantata 18, 280; Chromatic Fantasy, 92; Goldberg Variations, 195; St. Matthew Passion, 18; Well-Tempered Clavier, The, 92, 196, 280

  Bad Lauchstädt, 23

  Bakunin, Mikhail (1814–76), 130, 135, 137, 162

  Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850): Fille d’Ève, Une, 53

  Bartels, Ulrich (b. 1965), 235

  Basel, xv, 170

  Baudelaire, Charles (1821–67): as artist figure, 271, 361; correspondence with RW, 78–79; and the creative process, 5–6; on Der fliegende Holländer, 52; on the ills of modern society, 48; on Lohengrin, 78, 119; and Tannhäuser, 78–79, 82, 85

  Writings: “Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris,” 52, 78–79

  Baudrillard, Jean (1929–2007), 365

  Bayreuth; Festspielhaus, 101–2, 263, 294, 311; Hofgarten, 208; Jewish Cemetery, 94; Nibelung chancellery, 93; Wagner in, xi, 17, 19, 36, 37, 45, 54, 92, 93, 99, 170, 258, 280; Wagner Museum, 198, 310, 365; Wahnfried, 17, 92, 93, 94, 170, 308, 322

  Bayreuth Festival, 17, 37, 62, 99, 109, 110, 120, 121, 161, 162, 240, 257, 286, 301, 305, 311, 314, 320, 323, 328, 329, 331, 332, 337, 344, 348, 350, 352, 353; in 1876, xi, 61, 169–70, 195, 241, 290, 295; in 1882, 236, 322–23, 338; in 1976, 161, 162, 192, 196, 305, 348; and Hitler, 108; New Bayreuth, xii

  Bayreuther Blätter, 93

  Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (1732–99), 9

  Bechstein, Ludwig (1801–60), 70, 74

  Beckett, Samuel (1906–89), 71, 165, 240

  Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770–1827): early influence on RW, 9, 25, 117, 357, 359; and genius, 176; and the German symphonic tradition, 60, 85, 124, 255, 284, 316, 357, 359; and Klimt, 337; and Mahler, 116, 353; and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 284; motivic writing in late string quartets, 118, 277; as the ne plus ultra of four-movement symphonic form, 55; “poetic features,” 116; and revolutionary music, 138, 358; RW as the living embodiment and heir, 138, 151, 357, 359; sketches, 310; as victim of repression and censorship, 28

  Works: Fidelio op. 72, 58, 87, 277; “Hammerklavier” Sonata op. 106, 94; Incidental Music to Goethe’s Egmont op. 84, 9; piano sonatas, 92; String Quartet in C-sharp Minor op. 131, 284; Symphony no. 3 op. 55 (“Eroica”), 116, 137–38, 195; Symphony no. 6 op. 68, 233; Symphony no. 9 op. 125, 19, 58, 151, 215–16, 219–20, 337, 358

  Beidler, Franz (1872–1930), ix

  Beidler, Isolde née von Bülow (1865–1919), ix

  Beijing: Forbidden City, 348

  Bekker, Paul (1882–1937), 143–45

  Bellini, Vincenzo (1801–35), 11

  Works: Capuleti e i Montecchi, 24, 42; Norma, 30

  Benjamin, Walter (1892–1940): and historical materialism, xvii, 109; and myth, 221; on RW’s view of Greek tragedy, 161, 163; on Tannhäuser, 86

  Writings: Storyteller, The, 221; Theses on the Philosophy of History, 165

  Benz, Bernhard, 209, 210, 296

  Berg, Alban (1885–1935): admiration for RW’s music, 258, 302, 332

  Works: Lulu, 348; Wozzeck, 332

  Berger, Christian (b. 1951), 194

  Berghaus, Ruth (1927–96), 180

  Berka, 196

  Berlin, 290; Academy of the Arts, 44; Court Opera, 69; critics in, 72, 103; Deutsche Oper, 40; Der fliegende Holländer in, 19; Mendelssohn’s revival of the St. Matthew Passion, 18; and Rienzi, 30, 34, 103; Royal Orchestra, 18; State Opera, 53, 110, 327; Victoria Theater, 169–70, 289

  Berliner Figaro, 34

  Berlioz, Hector (1803–69), 92, 136, 144; fondness for Rienzi’s Prayer, 39; and Lohengrin, 119

  Works: Symphonie Fantastique, 56

  Bermbach, Udo (b. 1938), xiv; on Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 273; on Rienzi, 33; on Parsifal, 324; on the Ring 164, 202–3, 212, 306; on Tannhäuser, 80

  Bernhardt, Joseph (1805–85), 262

  Bethmann, Heinrich (1774–1857), 23

  Biessenhofen, 274

  Billroth, Theodor (1829–94), 289

  Birmingham Festival, 370n8

  Bloch, Ernst (1885–1977), 259–61, 315; on Der fliegende Holländer, 58, 65; on Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 271; on the Ring, 248; on Tristan und Isolde, 238, 239, 247, 248, 252, 260–61

  Writings: “Paradoxes and the Pastorale in Wagner’s Music,” 260; Principle of Hope, 252; Spirit of Utopia, The, 247, 259

  Böcklin, Arnold (1827–1901), 162, 176

  Böhme, Rudolf (Wagner’s landlord in Dresden), 2

  Bohr, Niels (1885–1962), xiii

  Boieldieu, François-Adrien (1775–1834): Dame blanche, La, 32

  Bologna, 170

  Bonfantini, G. A., xv

  Borchmeyer, Dieter (b. 1941), 17, 77, 271

  Bordeaux, 96

  Börne, Ludwig (1786–1837), 66

  Bortolotto, Mario: on Parsifal, 341; on Rienzi, 35; on Tristan und Isolde, 252

  Botticelli, Sandro (1444/45–1510): Mystic Nativity, 177

  Boulez, Pierre (b. 1925), 306, 330, 337, 352

  Brahms, Johannes (1833–97): and Billroth, 289; and German patriotism, 311; and the German symphonic tradition, 124, 176, 218, 255, 265, 273; and Herzogenberg, 329; and Kalbeck, 326; and Mahler, 353; RW on, 118, 153

  Works: “Schwesterlein, Schwesterlein, wann geh’n wir nach Haus?” 336; Triumphlied, 308

  Brand, Hans Bartolo (1854–1945), 348

  Brandt, Marianne (1842–1921), 348

  Braun, Christina von (b. 1944), 346

  Braunschweig, 33

  Brecht, Bertolt (1898–1956), 82, 83, 140

  Breig, Werner (b. 1932), 39, 86, 333

  Breitkopf & Härtel, 232

  Breslau, 106

  Brockhaus, Ottilie née Wagner (1811–83), 2

  Bronfen, Elisabeth (b. 1958), 346

  Bruckner, Anton (1824–96), 265, 353

  Works: Symphony no. 3, 216

  Brussels: Palais de Justice, 140; Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, 90

  Budapest, 170

  Buddhism, 148, 236, 323; metempsychosis, 345; nirvana, 236, 244, 314

  Bülow, Bernhard von (1849–1929), 300

  Bülow, Hans von (1830–94), 232; as legal father of Isolde Beidler, ix; and “Lyric Pieces from Lohengrin,” 84–85; on Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 267; and Rienzi, 38

  Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, first Baron Lytton (1803–73): Rienzi: The Last of the Roman Tribunes, 29, 32

  Burianek, Stephan, 166

  Burrell, Mary (1850–98), xv

  Büsching, Johann Gustav Gottlieb (1783–1829): Ritterzeit und Ritterwesen, 10

  Buxtehude, Dietrich (ca. 1637–1707): In dulci jubilo, 240

  Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron (1788–1824): Manfred, 52

  Campenhout, Herman van (b. 1943), 111

  Camus, Albert (1913–60), 71

  Caradori-Allan, Maria (1800–65), 370n8

  Castelli, Ignaz Franz (1781–1862): Waise und der Mörder, Die, 4

  Chafe, Eric (b. 1946), 255

  Chamberlain, Eva (1867–1942), ix, 321

  Chéreau, Patrice (b. 1944), 161, 162, 178, 180, 192, 196, 305, 306, 348

  Chopin, Frédéric (1810–49), 92

  Christianity: Christ as a soc
ial revolutionary, 134–35; Christian Catholicism, 74; Christianization of Europe, 156; and eschatological annihilation, 135–36; Judaic-Christian tradition, 133, 134, 320, 326; RW’s views on, 79, 80, 130, 163–64, 281, 307, 319–21, 323, 326–27, 328, 344, 345. See also the entries under Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Tannhäuser in the Index of Works

  Cola di Rienzo (ca. 1313–54), 32

  commedia dell’arte, 29

  Communism, 15, 129–30, 144

  Coppola, Francis Ford (b. 1939): Apocalypse Now, 362

  Cornelius, Peter (1824–74), 279, 280

  counterpoint, 39, 117, 203, 279, 280, 281, 282, 284, 287

  Craft, Robert (*1923), 342

  Dahlhaus, Carl (1928–89): on “absolute music,” 358; on Die Feen, 11; on Der fliegende Holländer, 56; on Lohengrin, 118; on Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 264; on Parsifal, 326; on the Ring, 163, 224, 296; on Tannhäuser, 72, 84; on Tristan und Isolde, 251

  Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), 78, 331

  Danuser, Hermann (b. 1946), 322

  Darcy, Warren, 273

  Daverio, John (1954–2003), 343–44

  David, Jacques-Louis (1748–1825), 358

  Deathridge, John (b. 1944), 310, 398n1

  Debussy, Claude (1862–1918), 332, 337, 342

  Works: Mer, La, 337; Pelléas et Mélisande, 342; Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, 337

  décadence, 75, 78, 153, 175, 241, 323, 346, 357

  deconstruction, 80, 81, 89, 121, 168, 305, 306, 314

  Delacroix, Eugène (1798–1863): Liberty Leading the People, 305

  Devrient, Eduard (1801–77), 132

  Dickens, Charles (1812–70), 162

  Döge, Klaus (1951–2011), 115

  Döhring, Sieghart (b. 1939), 74

  Dolci, Carlo (1616–86), 84

  Dom Pedro II, emperor of Brazil (1825–91), 241

  Donizetti, Gaetano (1797–1848), 24; establishes a name for himself in Paris, 48

  Works: Favorite, La, 48

  Dorschel, Andreas (b. 1962), 244

  Dresden, 2, 66, 130, 183, 220, 288, 289; Court Opera, 34, 61, 69, 70, 73, 99, 100, 132; “Dresden Amen,” 88, 338, 344, 349; Dresden Uprising, 15, 66, 102, 128, 130, 131, 134, 135, 136, 144, 147, 159; Fatherland Association, 107, 129; Kreuzschule, 2; Mendelssohn’s role in, 19; Minna flees to in 1837, 29; Postplatz, 135; RW as Kapellmeister to the Royal Court, 39, 44, 48, 51, 56, 77, 79, 84, 130, 131, 133, 144, 232, 264, 265; RW moves to in 1814, 1; RW returns to in 1822, 2; RW settles there in 1842, 65, 70; subscription concerts, 137; Waldschlößchen, 103

 

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