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

Contents

• Chapter 1 ‘One can learn a lot from Wagner, including how not to write operas’: Sergey Taneyev and his Road to Wagner, Anastasia Belina-Johnson
• Chapter 2 ‘The end of opera itself’: Rimsky-Korsakov and Wagner, Stephen Muir
• Chapter 3 How Russian was Wagner? Russian Campaigns to Defend or Destroy the German Composer during the Great War (1914–1918), Rebecca Mitchell
• Chapter 4 Prophecy of a Revolution: Aleksey Losev on Wagner’s Aesthetic Outlook, Vladimir Marchenkov
• Chapter 5 1The quotation is adapted from an interview with Dvo?ák given to Paul Pry of The Sunday Times, 10 May 1885, p.
• 6. The complete interview is reprinted in an
• appendix to (ed.), Rethinking Dvo?ák: Views from Five Countries (Oxford, 1966), pp. 281–
• 8. The original version of the quotation is given below (see footnote 28)., Jan Smaczny
• Chapter 6 Wagnerism in Moravia: Janá?ek’s First Opera,Šárka, Michael Ewans
• Chapter 7 ‘Where the King Spirit becomes manifest’: Stanis?aw Wyspia?ski in Search of the Polish Bayreuth, Rados?aw Okulicz-Kozaryn
• Chapter 8 The Reception of Wagner’s Music and Ideas in Poland during the Communist Years(1945–1989), Magdalena Dziadek