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Free Download John Louis DiGaetani, "Richard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life"
English | ISBN: 0786445440 | 2014 | 228 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, 200 years after his birth, re-examining his life in light of new documents and new sensibilities. Since World War II Wagner has often been wrongly associated with Adolf Hitler because Hitler liked Wagner’s music and used it in Nazi propaganda. But Wagner died in 1883-fifty years before Hitler’s regime. It is time to have a fresh look at Wagner’s life without the Nazi associations. His life was a series of abandonments and traumas for the self-destructive but creative genius, as he tried to survive as a freelance composer in the hostile environments of 19th century Germany.

Free Download John Louis DiGaetani, "Inside the Ring: Essays on Wagner’s Opera Cycle"
English | ISBN: 0786423307 | 2006 | 268 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Once tainted by association with Hitler and Nazism, Richard Wagner’s work has experienced an international cultural renaissance in the last 25 years. His magnum opus, Der Ring des Nibelungen, which took him over 20 years to finish, is a complex tale with themes of greed, corruption and loss, spun out in more than 16 hours of powerfully moving opera. This book, with provocative essays for both the uninitiated and the seasoned fan, examines Wagner’s Ring cycle from a wide array of modern perspectives.

Free Download PastToFutureReverbs Pre-War German Wagner Piano For Kontakt! KONTAKT | Exclusive | 39.77 MB
Sometimes is the imperfect sound the right one.
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Free Download PastToFutureReverbs Pre-War German Wagner Piano For KONTAKT | 39.8 Mb
Sometimes is the imperfect sound the right one. The sound of this piano is very old and has a melancholic character. We sampled this piano in the late 90’s using Akai Sampler and now converted for you to Kontakt.

Free Download Richard Schacht, "Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner’s Ring"
English | 2004 | pages: 254 | ISBN: 0195173597, 0195183606 | PDF | 1,7 mb
Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner’s four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner’s achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world.

Free Download Professor Dr. Eva Rieger, Chris Walton, "Friedelind Wagner: Richard Wagner’s Rebellious Granddaughter"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1843838648 | PDF | pages: 366 | 67.6 mb
The first-ever biography of Richard Wagner’s artistically gifted granddaughter who fought against Hitler’s Germany but achieved no personal success for her troubles.

Free Download Egon Voss, "Richard Wagner"
Deutsch | 2012 | ISBN: 3406637213 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 2.3 mb
Triste, Triste, Triste. Wagner è morto! So reagierte der große italienische Opernkomponist Giuseppe Verdi, als er erfuhr, daß Richard Wagner, der Schöpfer von romantischen Opern wie Tannhäuser oder Lohengrin und von Musikdramen wie Tristan und Isolde oder Der Ring des Nibelungen, am 13.Februar1883 in Venedig gestorben war. Die Weltgeltung von Wagners musikalischen Bühnenwerken vom Fliegenden Holländer bis zum Parsifal ist unbestreitbar, und sie ist immer noch im Wachsen begriffen, doch lastet auf der Rezeption seiner Kunst der dunkle Schatten seines Antisemitismus. Wagners Persönlichkeit und seinem künstlerischen Schaffen gerecht zu werden, ohne die problematischen Seiten seines Charakters auszuklammern, ist das Anliegen von Egon Voss – einem der besten Kenner von Leben und Werk Richard Wagners -, der diese kleine Biographie geschrieben hat.

Free Download Donald A. Rosenthal, "Richard Wagner and the Art of the Avant-Garde, 1860-1910"
English | ISBN: 1538179997 | 2023 | 212 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 8 MB
This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term avant-garde represents a twenty-first century evaluation of certain nineteenth-century artists working in a variety of advanced styles, rather than a phrase the artists applied to themselves.