Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

Permissions xv

PART I ESSAYS

From Page to Stage: Wagner as Regisseur 3 KATHERINE SYER

Wagner and Liszt: Elective Affinities 27 KENNETH HAMILTON

From Opera to Music Drama: Nominal Loss, Titular Gain 65 LYDIA GOEHR

Eine Kapitulation: Aristophanic Operetta as Cultural Warfare 87 in 1870 THOMAS S. GREY

A Note on Tristan’s Death Wish 123 KAROL BERGER

Guides for Wagnerites: Leitmotifs and Wagnerian Listening 133 CHRISTIAN THORAU

German Jews and Wagner 151 LEON BOTSTEIN

PART II BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTS

Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and Wagner’s Dresden 201 CLAIRE VON GLÜMER, HENRY CHORLEY TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY

Catulle Mendès Visits Tribschen 230 CATULLE MENDÈS TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY

Recollections of Villa Wahnfried from Wagner’s American Dentist 237 NEWELL SILL JENKINS INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY

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PART III TOWARD A MUSIC OF THE FUTURE, 1840–1860

The Overture to Tannhäuser 251 FRANZ LISZT INTRODUCED, EDITED, AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID TRIPPETT TRANSLATED BY JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT

Letters to a Young Composer About Wagner 269 JOHANN CHRISTIAN LOBE INTRODUCED, EDITED, AND TRANSLATED BY DAVID TRIPPETT

Franz Brendel’s Reconciliation Address 311 FRANZ BRENDEL INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY JAMES DEAVILLE TRANSLATED BY JAMES DEAVILLE AND MARY A. CICORA

PART IV WAGNER AND PARIS

Wagner Admires Meyerbeer (Les Huguenots) 335 RICHARD WAGNER TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY

Debacle at the Paris Opéra: 347 Tannhäuser and the French Critics, 1861 OSCAR COMETTANT, PAUL SCUDO TRANSLATED BY THOMAS S. GREY INTRODUCED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER ANNOTATED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER AND THOMAS S. GREY

The Revue wagnérienne: Symbolism, Aestheticism, 372 and Germanophilia J. K. HUYSMANS, TEODOR DE WYZEWA, EDOUARD DUJARDIN INTRODUCED BY STEVEN HUEBNER SELECTIONS TRANSLATED BY BRENDAN KING AND CHARLOTTE MANDELL

PART V THE BAYREUTH ERA

Press Releases from the Bayreuth Festival, 1876: 391 An Early Attempt at Spin Control J. ZIMMERMANN INTRODUCED, TRANSLATED, AND ANNOTATED BY NICHOLAS VAZSONYI

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Hanslick contra Wagner: 409 “The Ring Cycle Comes to Vienna” and “Parsifal Literature” EDUARD HANSLICK TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY

Hans von Wolzogen’s Parsifal (1887) 426 HANS VON WOLZOGEN TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND EDITED BY MARY A. CICORA

Cosima Wagner’s Bayreuth 435 RICHARD POHL, ARTHUR SEIDL, EUGEN GURA, ARNOLD SCHERING, HEINRICH CHEVALLEY TRANSLATED BY MARY A. CICORA INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID BRECKBILL

PART VI THE COMPLETE PROGRAM NOTES OF RICHARD WAGNER

Wagner Introduces Wagner (and Beethoven): 479 Program Notes Written for Concert Performances by and of Richard Wagner, 1846–1880 RICHARD WAGNER TRANSLATED, ANNOTATED, AND INTRODUCED BY THOMAS S. GREY Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture Overture to Tannhäuser Overture to Der fliegende Holländer Prelude to Lohengrin Tannhäuser Lohengrin L. van Beethoven, String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131 Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1 Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1 and Conclusion (“Transfiguration”) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Preludes to Acts 1 and 3 Götterdämmerung Die Walküre Parsifal: Prelude to Act 1

Index 523

Notes on the Contributors 539

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