"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1" by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt is a compilation of letters illustrating the deep connection between a groundbreaking composer and a famous pianist during a vibrant musical era. It begins by showing the composer's feelings of being alone and struggling with his artistic direction, made worse by a lack of public understanding and the political issues of the time. The letters contain the composer's requests to the pianist for different kinds of support as he tries to produce his creations against difficulties. The pianist appears as a reliable friend, doing what he can to promote the composer's music while dealing with his own career and different viewpoints about art. Together, these letters mix stories about their lives with discussions about art and music, giving readers a close look at their friendship, their creative processes, and the difficulties they faced.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1
By Richard Wagner
Read the private letters of a composer and a pianist as their friendship guides them through a world struggling to understand their revolutionary music.
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About the AuthorWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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