Wagner in Russia, Poland and the Czech Lands: Musical, Literary and Cultural Perspectives

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Contents: Foreword: so much more than a composer, Richard Taruskin
Preface: from the Editors
'One can learn a lot from Wagner, including how not to write operas': Sergey Taneyev and his road to Wagner, Anastasia Belina-Johnson
'The end of opera itself': Rimsky Korsakov and Wagner, Stephen Muir
How Russian was Wagner? Russian campaigns to defend or destroy the German composer during the Great War (1914-1918), Rebecca Mitchell
Prophecy of a revolution: Aleksey Losev on Wagner's aesthetic outlook, Vladimir Marchenkov
'The great little man': Dvorak and Wagner, Jan Smaczny
Wagnerisms in Moravia: Janacek's first opera, Sarka, Michael Ewans
'Where the king spirit becomes manifest': Stanislaw Wyspianski in search of the Polish Bayreuth, Radoslaw Okulicz-Kozaryn
The reception of Wagner's music and ideas in Poland during the Communist years (1945-1989), Magdalena Dziadek
Bibliography
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Richard Wagner has arguably the greatest and most long-term influence on wider European culture of all nineteenth-century composers. And yet, among the copious English-language literature examining Wagner's works, influence, and character, research into the composer’s impact and role in Russia and Eastern European countries, and perceptions of him from within those countries, is noticeably sparse. Wagner in Russia, Poland and the Czech Lands aims to redress imbalance and stimulate further research in this rich area. The eight essays are divided in three parts - one each on Russia, the Czech lands and Poland - and cover a wide historical span, from the composer’s first contacts with and appearances in these regions, through to his later reception in the Communist era. The contributing authors examine his influences in a wide range of areas such as music, literary and epistolary heritage, politics, and the cultural histories of Russia, the Czech lands, and Poland, in an attempt to establish Wagner’s place in a part of Europe not commonly addressed in studies of the composer.

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