audiobook L'architettura delle differenze (Italian Edition) by Davide Ruzzon in Arts-Photography

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Melding literary; philosophical; and political mdash; as well as musical mdash; influences in his works; Richard Wagner (1813ndash;83) brought the expressive power of German romantic opera to new heights mdash; indeed; his music was its crowning glory. George Bernard Shaw; a critic not given to hyperbole; acknowledged Wagners preeminent status in The Perfect Wagnerite: "He was the summit of the nineteenth-century school of dramatic music."In Der Ring des Nibelungen; Wagner drew on a medieval German epic; the Nibelungenlied; and Norse mythology to create a new synthesis of music and drama on the largest scale. Of the four works in the Ring cycle; Gouml;tterdauml;mmerung is perhaps the grandest and most sweeping of all. Although it is the final work in the series; the opera was actually first sketched out by Wagner in 1848; under the title Siegfrieds Tod. As it turned out; dramaturgic difficulties forced the composer to expand the tragedy of Siegfried into the four-part Ring. In 1851 he amplified Siegfrieds Tod with Der junge Siegfried (later Siegfried); and the following year wrote the texts of Die Walkuuml;re and Das Rheingold. In effect; the text of the Ring cycle was written in reverse order.Wagner began composing the musical drafts of Gouml;tterdauml;mmerung in 1869. Five years later; the work was complete mdash; the capstone of an epic masterpiece that aroused near-religious fervor among its devotees. Shaw opined of the Ring as a whole: "The musical fabric is enormously elaborate and gorgeous;" while Groves Dictionary offers this comment on the special appeal of Gouml;tterdauml;mmerung: "It is in the epic and reflective passages of Gouml;tterdauml;mmerung; the narratives and orchestral epic of the Funeral March; that there unfurls that associative magic praised so highly by Thomas Mann."Gouml;tterdauml;mmerung has never been available in the United States in full operatic score mdash; until now. Reprinted directly from the rare 1877 first edition; this is the score that Wagner himself approved with the instrumentation he intended. Except for the original title page; the German-language front matter has been omitted in this edition for reasons of space and replaced by an English translation.New admirers of Wagner; opera enthusiasts; and all music lovers can savor the full heroic impact of this majestic musical achievement in Dovers characteristically inexpensive; superbly produced edition.