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Richard Wagner; Der Ring Des Nibelungen: A Companion Paperback - 1997

by Rudolph Sabor


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The companion volume to the Ring libretto translations by Rudolph Sabor provides a guide through the labyrinth of the Ring, clarifying its literary and musical idiom and significance. It offers essays, surveys and summaries - designed to inform, enlighten, and occassionally, provoke. A biography of Richard Wagner's colourful life precedes an essay on the myriad mythological sources that inspired the opera cycle. How the Ring came about, and what it can be taken to mean, are considered in the essay 'The Genesis of the Ring'. Wagner's complex use of the leitmotif - his musical 'labels' of people, emotions, events - is clarified, and Sabor introduces the reader to both the characters and the story of the Ring. A history of 120 years of performances, at Bayreuth and elsewhere, is copiously illustrated. Appendices include a full bibliography, discography, videography, and a short listing of Wagner's orchestral forces. The volume concludes with a list of all the leitmotifs in the Ring. Four other books are available in this series, which each have a translation and commentary to one of the four operas in the Ring cycle. The books can be enjoyed individually or as a series; either way they will equip the Wagner enthusiast with a fund of information to make the Ring journey more rewarding.

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  • Title Richard Wagner; Der Ring Des Nibelungen: A Companion
  • Author Rudolph Sabor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Phaidon Press, London
  • Date 1997
  • ISBN 9780714836508 / 0714836508
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.75 x 6.25 x 0.75 in (22.23 x 15.88 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98177222
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.1

About the author

Rudolph Sabor is a writer and lecturer whose books include The Real Wagner. He frequently gives lectures on Wagner and reviews the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth for the major broadsheets and music periodicals.
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