Parsifal: A Study of Wagner's Music Drama - Softcover

Wilmshurst, W. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558181687 ISBN 13: 9781558181687

Publisher: Holmes Pub Group Llc, 1990

Synopsis

This interpretative study of Parsifal was published as a magazine article in 1914, on the opera being first produced in England at Covent Garden. Now that the work is being reintroduced by the British National Opera Company to large audiences throughout the country who hitherto have had no chance of becoming acquainted with it, it has been suggested in several quarters that the article might usefii Uybe reprinted for the possible assistance of those who wish for some guidance as to Wagner sideas and intentions in the great symbolic music-drama in which his long and laborious life-work culminated. Written originally for a special and limited circle of readers habituated to the study of mystical religion and philosophy, the article may perhaps prove difficult to, or outside the usual lines of thought of, some of the public whose interests lie in other directions. But as there may be many to whom Parsifal may mean something more than an opera, to whom it will mean something vital and deep, something that the ordinary review or press-notice of dramatic productions does not convey or interpret, I gladly place this study of it at public disposal, there to take its chance of finding sympathetic readers and helping whom it may towards that attainment of which Parsifal treats. W. L. WiLMSHURST. Gledholt, Huddersfield, March,
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About this edition

• Publisher: Holmes Pub Group Llc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1558181687
• ISBN 13: 9781558181687
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1