Richard Wagner: Parsifal by Lucy Beckett
In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner's last and strangest opera. The literary sources of this work, its many links with Wagner's life and thought, its libretto, music and stage history, are all thoroughly examined. There is a full commentary, with extensive quotation, on the work's critical history, and finally, a fresh assessment of its place in the Wagner canon and of its unique quality as a music drama that is both modern and Christian. Full references, a bibliography and a discography are provided. A special chapter of musical analysis is contributed by Arnold Whittall.
'The wealth of analytic insight, into both text and music, belies the book's modest length, and it must surely be recognized as the best English study of Parsifal now available' Music & Letters
Beckett, Lucy: - LUCY BECKETT is a novelist, historian and literary critic. She has published studies of Wallace Stevens and of Wagner's Parsifal with Cambridge University Press, and with Ignatius Press a major survey of the Western literary tradition in its Christian context, In the Light of Christ, as well as three novels, The Time Before You Die, set in the English Reformation, A Postcard from the Volcano, set in Weimar Germany, and The Leaves are Falling, set in the borderlands of Poland and Russia during World War II, which won the 2015 Aquinas Award for Fiction. Educated at Cambridge University, she has otherwise lived in Yorkshire all her life, is married to the musicologist John Warrack, and has four children and ten grandchildren.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521296625 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521296625 |
| Title | Richard Wagner: Parsifal |
| Author | Lucy Beckett |
| Series | Cambridge Opera Handbooks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1981-08-20 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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