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Religion and Art
Richard Wagner
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Description for Religion and Art
Paperback. Includes 6 of the 1897 translation of Richard Wagner's works commissioned by the London Wagner Society. This book includes "Religion and Art", "Public and Popularity" and "The Public in Time and Space"; his papers relating to the creation of the Bayreuth School; and his complaint against publishers of "On Poetry and Composition". Translator(s): Ellis, William Ashton. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 30. Weight in Grams: 554.
One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion. With these words Richard Wagner began Religion and Art (1880), one of his most passionate essays. That passion made Wagner himself a central icon in the growing cult of art. Wagner felt that he lived in an age of spiritual crisis. It can but rouse our apprehension, to see the progress of the art-of-war departing from the springs of moral force, and turning more and more to the mechanical, he wrote. In response to the frightening ... Read more
One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion. With these words Richard Wagner began Religion and Art (1880), one of his most passionate essays. That passion made Wagner himself a central icon in the growing cult of art. Wagner felt that he lived in an age of spiritual crisis. It can but rouse our apprehension, to see the progress of the art-of-war departing from the springs of moral force, and turning more and more to the mechanical, he wrote. In response to the frightening ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Weight
563 g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803297647
SKU
V9780803297647
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About Richard Wagner
William Ashton Ellis is one of the most important translators of nineteenth-century musicology. In addition to his monumental translation of Wagner's prose works, he translated Wagner's correspondence with Franz Lizst, Mathilde Wesendonck, and Wagner's own family. Ellis died in 1919.
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