Wagner's Ring in 1848 : new translations of the Nibelung myth and Siegfried's death
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Wagner's Ring in 1848 : new translations of the Nibelung myth and Siegfried's death
（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）
Camden House, 2010
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Nibelungen-Mythus als Entwurf zu einem Drama
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German text and parallel English translation on opposite pages, with introduction and commentary in English
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 1848 Richard Wagner began what would become the largest stage work of his career, the Ring of the Nibelung. In preparation for the task he composed an overview of the Nibelung myth designed to lead to a drama; he then composed the verse "libretto" Siegfried's Death. Although he abandoned the idea of a single opera on Siegfried in favor of the huge project that developed out of it in the succeeding years -- the Ring cycle -- he did consider the two early documents important enough to include them in his collected works. The present volume seeks to inform the English-speaking reader in three ways: by providing modern, reliable translations of the two Wagner texts, which are otherwise not available (the German original is provided on facing pages); by furnishing an overview of German scholarship available to Wagner and others working on the Nibelung legend in the first half of the nineteenth century; and by making available a bibliography of further reading. The volume will be useful to students of musicology, to students and historians of myth and legend, and to all Wagnerians interested in the genesis of the Ring cycle. Accessible to the general reader, it maintains scholarly rigor and provides information about materials not available in English.
Edward R. Haymes is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages atCleveland State University.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Wagner's Nibelungs in 1848
Commentary on The Nibelung Myth
Der Nibelungen-Mythus. / The Nibelung Myth
Commentary on Siegfried's Tod and the Transformation to Goetterdammerung
Siegfried's Tod / Siegfried's Death
Notes
Index
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