Drama and the World of Richard Wagner
Contributors: Daphne Ellis (Translator)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780691114972
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Opera; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); c 1800 to c 1900; Music; Composers & Musicians - Classical Vocalists; Biography / Autobiography; Wagner, Richard,; Genres & Styles - Opera; Comparative Literature; Music / Opera; 1813-1883; Criticism and interpretation; Wandering Jew
First sentence: IN 1830 the seventeen-year-old Wagner first turned his hand to writing an opera, but beyond the fact that he described it as a "pastoral opera" and that it was modeled on Goethe's pastoral play of 1768, Die Laune des Verliebten (The caprice of the infatuated lover), we know nothing about it, as he quickly abandoned the idea, and no text or music has survived.