The Parsifal of Richard Wagner
with accounts of the Perceval of Chretien de Troies and Parzival of Wolfram von Escehnbach
LOUISE M. HEUERMANN
Translated from the French by Maurice Kufferath
With the leading Motifs in Musical Notation and Illustrations of the Scenes at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Published by Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1905. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, gilt titling to front board and spine, gilt topedge, deckled for & bottom edges. 8vo, 300 pages. Richard Wagner, German composer, criticism, study, scholarship, performance, history, music, classical music, 19 century, opera.
Parsifal is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century Middle High German chivalric romance Parzival of the Minnesänger Wolfram von Eschenbach and the Old French chivalric romance Perceval ou le Conte du Graal by the 12th-century trouvère Chrétien de Troyes, recounting different accounts of the story of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his spiritual quest for the Holy Grail.
Wagner conceived the work in April 1857, but did not finish it until 25 years later. In composing it he took advantage of the particular acoustics of his newly built Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Parsifal was first produced at the second Bayreuth Festival in 1882. The Bayreuth Festival maintained a monopoly on Parsifal productions until 1903, when the opera was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Wagner described Parsifal not as an opera, but as Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel (a sacred festival stage play). At Bayreuth a tradition has arisen that audiences do not applaud at the end of the first act. Wagner's spelling of Parsifal instead of the Parzival he had used up to 1877 was informed by one of the theories about the name Percival, according to which it is of Persian origin, Parsi (or Parseh) Fal meaning "pure (or poor) fool"
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The Parsifal of Richard Wagner
with accounts of the Perceval of Chretien de Troies and Parzival of Wolfram von Escehnbach
LOUISE M. HEUERMANN
Translated from the French by Maurice Kufferath
With the leading Motifs in Musical Notation and Illustrations of the Scenes at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Published by Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1905. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, gilt titling to front board and spine, gilt topedge, deckled for & bottom edges. 8vo, 300 pages. Richard Wagner, German composer, criticism, study, scholarship, performance, history, music, classical music, 19 century, opera.
Parsifal is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century Middle High German chivalric romance Parzival of the Minnesänger Wolfram von Eschenbach and the Old French chivalric romance Perceval ou le Conte du Graal by the 12th-century trouvère Chrétien de Troyes, recounting different accounts of the story of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his spiritual quest for the Holy Grail.
Wagner conceived the work in April 1857, but did not finish it until 25 years later. In composing it he took advantage of the particular acoustics of his newly built Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Parsifal was first produced at the second Bayreuth Festival in 1882. The Bayreuth Festival maintained a monopoly on Parsifal productions until 1903, when the opera was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Wagner described Parsifal not as an opera, but as Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel (a sacred festival stage play). At Bayreuth a tradition has arisen that audiences do not applaud at the end of the first act. Wagner's spelling of Parsifal instead of the Parzival he had used up to 1877 was informed by one of the theories about the name Percival, according to which it is of Persian origin, Parsi (or Parseh) Fal meaning "pure (or poor) fool"
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