The Study of PARSIFAL - Wagner's opera

Autor: Yu-Chun Tsai, 蔡毓純
Rok vydání: 2012
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 100
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883), regarding as one of the most revolutionary composer of The Romantic Era, had spared no effort on musical creation and operatic reform by issued a great number of theoretical articles and books. Wagner sought to achieved the synthesis of all aspects in opera for expressed his dissatisfaction with those musicians who only compose music. To carry out the ideal, moreover, he established the Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth Festival Theatre) which is unprecedented at all times and in all countries not only on its provided particular composer’s works but on the atmosphere Bayreuth Festival Theatre has created. Wagner bestowed the title Buhnenweihfestspiel on his last completed opera Parsifal, tailor-made for Bayreuth Festspielhaus, that showed the two is closely connected and inseparable. Parsifal reached a climax of the musical part and reflected the composer’s feelings on each aspect such as, life, society, philosophy, and religion. As well, the immortal work is worthy of our continued research in the future generations. This proposal firstly includes FOUR parts of all Wilhelm Richard Wagner’s life—Family life, Educations, Love affair and Marriage, Friends and Career. In the career part, I will introduce the establishment of Bayreuth Festspielhaus. In order to give readers the preliminary understanding on composer and on the background of Parsifal, after deal with the composer’s works, I will describe the debut of Parsifal and the right of presentation of the theater before we going into its details which comprise the profound research and analysis of subject matter, characters, plot and music.
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