Richard Wagner’s opera “Rienzi”: from a literary source to a musical embodimen
Journal: Часопис Національної музичної академії України ім П І Чайковського
Year: 2018

The relevance of the article is the need to study in more detail the initial stages of Richard Wagner’s work on poetic texts to his own early operas. This theme is revealed on the example of the reconstruction of the history of its creation and all stages of composer’s work when he has written the verbal basis for his third opera “Rienzi”, the story source of which was the novel of the English writer E. Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873). In the article, using the comparative historical method the author