Volume 30, Number 20 · December 22, 1983
Wagner and Wagnerism
By Joseph Kerman
BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ESSAY
Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century
by Martin Gregor-Dellin, translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 575 pp., $25.00
The New Grove Wagner
by John Deathridge, by Carl Dahlhaus
Norton
The Fertilizing Seed: Wagner's Concept of the Poetic Intent
by Frank W. Glass
UMI Research Press, 320 pp., $44.95
Wagner's Siegfried: Its Drama, History, and Music
by Patrick McCreless
UMI Research Press, 248 pp., $44.95
I Saw the World End: A Study of Wagner's Ring
by Deryck Cooke
Oxford University Press, 360 pp., $22.50
Wagner and Aeschylus: The Ring and the Oresteia
by Michael Ewans
Cambridge University Press, 271 pp., $29.95
Kingdom on the Rhine: History, Myth and Legend in Wagner's Ring
by Nancy Benvenga
Anton Press (Harwich, England), 180 pp., £5.95
Staging Wagnerian Drama
by Adolphe Appia, translated with an introduction by Peter Loeffler
Birkhäuser Boston, 94 pp., $5.95
My Life
by Richard Wagner, translated by Andrew Gray, edited by Mary Whittall
Cambridge University Press, 786 pp., $39.50
Wagner Rehearsing the 'Ring': An Eye-Witness Account of the Stage Rehearsals of the First Bayreuth Festival
by Heinrich Porges, translated by Robert L. Jacobs
Cambridge University Press, 145 pp., $19.95
In Search of Wagner [Versuch über Wagner]
by Theodor Adorno, translated by Rodney Livingstone
Schocken, 159 pp., $14.50
Tétralogies—Wagner, Boulez, Chéreau: Essai sur l'infidélité
by Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Bourgois (Paris), 287 pp., 80F
Dichtungen und Schriften: Jubiläumsausgabe in Zehn Bänden
by Richard Wagner, edited by Dieter Borchmeyer
Insel Verlag (Frankfurt), 3,400 pp., $49.00
The Opera Quarterly, Commemorative Wagner Issue, volume 1, no. 3 (Autumn 1983)
University of North Carolina Press, 316 pp., $8.95
Three Wagner Essays
by Richard Wagner, translated by Robert L. Jacobs
Da Capo, 127 pp., $15.00
Readers who feel in need of a quick Wagner fix, but who may be put off by the multitude of recent Wagner literature (as is the present reviewer), will do well to await The New Grove Wagner. It contains a concise, merciless account of Wagner's life by John Deathridge and, at somewhat greater length, a treatment of Wagner's music, aesthetics, and individual operas and music dramas by Carl Dahlhaus which is a tour de force in its short space. In addition, there is a very valuable up-to-date work list based on the comprehensive catalog of Wagner's music that is about to be issued in Germany—the first 'Köchel' ever issued for this composer.
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