Gotterdammerung in Full Score(瓦格纳歌剧《众神的黄昏》全谱)

Melding literary, philosophical and political--as well as musical--influences in his works, Richard Wagner (1813-1883) brought the expressive power of German Romantic opera to new heights--indeed, his music was its crowning glory. George Bernard Shaw, a critic not given to hyperbole, acknowledged Wagner's preeminent status: "He was the summit of the nineteenth century school of dramatic music." (The Perfect Wagnerite).
In Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner drew on a medieval German epic, the Nibelungenlied, and Norse mythology to create a new synthesis of music and drama on the largest scale. Of the four works in the Ring cycle, GOtterdiimmerung is perhaps the grandest and most sweeping of all. Although it is the final work in the series, the opera was actually first sketched out by Wagner in 1848, under the title, Siegfrieds Tod. As it turned out, dramaturgic difficulties forced the composer to effpand the tragedy of Siegfried into the four-part Ring. In 1851, he amplified Sieg[rieds Tod with Der iunge Sieg[ried (later Siegfried) and in the following year, wrote the texts of Die Walkiire and Das Rheingold. In effect, the text of the Ring cycle was written in reverse order.
Wagner began composing the musical drafts of GOtterdiimmerung in 1869. Five years later, the work was complete--the capstone of an epic masterpiece that aroused near-religious fervor among its devotees. Shaw opined of the Ring as a whole: "The musical fabric is enormously elaborate and gorgeous," while Grove's Dictionary offers this comment on the special appeal of Otterdi~mmerung: "It is in the epic and reflective passages of Gotterdammerung, the narratives and orchestral epic of the Funeral March, that there unfurls that 'associative magic' praised so highly by Thomas Mann."
Gotterdammerung has never been available in the U.S. in full operatic score--until now. Reprinted directly from the rare 1877 first edition, this is the score that Wagner himself approved with the instrumentation he intended. Except for the original title page, the German-language frontmatter has been omitted in the present edition, for reasons of space, and replaced by an English translation.
Now admirers of Wagner,opera enthusiasts and all music lovers can savor the full heroic impact of this majestic musical achievement in Dover's characteristically inexpensive,superbly produced edition.

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