Wagner and the Ring Cycle

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Der Ring des Nibelungen An Introduction (mainly to the music) Pete Kellock [email protected]

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NOTE: I recommend you *download* this using the "Save" button above and play it locally in Powerpoint or the Powerpoint Viewer. The music excerpts and speaker notes are absolutely essential and you won't get those if you view the deck online in the browser. It's a talk on Wagner and his operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, including an outline of Wagner's life & times and an intro to the drama of the Ring, followed by some deeper discussion of the music of the Ring, particularly the Leitmotifs and their development.

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2. Die Walkre Act 2 Sc 1 (Brnnhilde) 3. Die Walkre Act 1 Sc 1(Sieglinde) 4. It is a work to which we are all indebtedand from which none of us can escapeTS Eliot about James Joyce's Ulysses (slightly paraphrased) 5. Wagners life & times The Ring The story and its interpretations The music...especially Leitmotifs and their development 6. High on the list of theWorld's Most Unpleasant Men?Megalomaniac?Sexist?Proto-Nazi?For the best of him,look to his art.For a summary of the controversies, seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_controversiesFor a fascinating (partial) defense of his character, see:http://wagnertripping.blogspot.sg/2013/02/the-wagner-caveat.html 7. Based on a diary hestarted keeping as ayoung manA surprisingly good read! 8. Born 1813 in Leipzig,Kingdom of Saxony Last of 9 children in family ofpolice clerk Carl Wagner...who died in Richards 1st year. Brought up by mother, afamily friend (actor &playwright Ludwig Geyer)and uncles/aunts Theatrical/entrepreneurialfamily within a tolerantbourgeois society Very close to his sisters Headstrong and unusualfrom childhood: eg writingplays (and soon music) , butoften ignoring his officialstudies.Some places Wagner livedMagdeburgLeipzigDresdenas a YouthWrzburg BayreuthZurichParisRigaVeniceas an AdultMunich 9. In his 20s and 30s... Appointments mainly as musical director /conductor at theatres For a while the Royal Saxon CourtConductor in Dresden But often unemployed or doing oddjobs Arranging, writing articles, coping music In debt most of his life ...and often running away from his creditors 10. Dresden, 1849 11. Abandonment of the Ring at the end of Act 2 of Siegfried...in a letter to Liszt in 1857 12. King Ludwig II ofBavariaNeuschwansteinCastle 13. Preliminary EveningGER: Das Rheingold | ENG: The RhinegoldFirst DayGER: Die Walkre | ENG: The Valkyrie(ie Brnnhilde)Second DayGER: Siegfried | ENG: SiegfriedThird DayGER: Gtterdmmerung | ENG: Twilight of the Gods 14. WotanKing of the Gods 15. Scandinavian sources the Saga of the Volsungs


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