Wagner and Wagnerism in nineteenth-century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces
Subtitle: reception, enthusiasm, cult
By: Hannu Salmi
Series: Eastman studies in music -- v. 34
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Performances -- Sweden; Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Performances -- Finland; Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Performances -- Baltic Provinces (Russia); Operas -- 19th century -- Performances
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index
Table of contents: title: Richard Wagner, the wandering musician. Around the Baltic Sea ; "The Siberia of Prussia" ; The Riga years; title: Wagner as an orchestral and drawing room composer. Musical networks ; Commodifying Wagner's innovations ; Entering the concert scene; title: The first steps in the cultural struggle. Riga as a Wagner center ; Lohengrin in Livonia ; "Living in the past" : Estonian responses ; Alone in the temple of Thalia : Tannhäuser in Helsinki; title: Ent'racte : Wagner's promotional tour in Russia (1863). Concerts and controls ; "Adieu, charmant pays!"; title: Cries and whispers : early Swedish encounters with Wagner. "Oh! Wagner, Wagner! I must cry out!" ; Rienzi as Zukunftsmusik; title: Institutionalizing a composer. "The emperor of new German music" ; The mastersingers of Riga ; "Shrieks and signals" ; History writing and legitimation; title: Pilgrimage to Wagner. The founding of the Bayreuth Festival ; Tourists on the Green Hill ; The cultural and social boundaries of Wagnerism; title: The campaigners for Bayreuth. Patrons, agents, societies ; Almost a relative : Fredrik Vult von Steijern ; The representatives of Finland : Richard Faltin and Martin Wegelius ; Carl Friedrich Glasenapp and the Riga Wagner Society; title: Conclusion : the final chord