Презентация на тему Music Appreciation

best by Wagner’s music
Music Dramas
Practiced what he preached
Saw himself

as a hero
Everything he conceived was larger than life
Lived extravagantly
Made many enemies
One of the most innovative artists of the era
One of the most brilliant and original musicians of the time

musical training
Wrote he words and the music for his

operas
First opera, "Die Feen", composed at age 20
Worked as a conductor with a traveling opera troop
Married Minna, an actress
Paris - piano and band arrangements of popular operatic tunes by other composers
Spent time in debtor's prison
First masterpiece, "The Flying Dutchman", was produced in 1843
Moved to Dresden where the “Dutchman” was produced and where he composed "Tannhauser" and "Lohengrin"

he lived in exile
Sketched out a cycle of 4

operas, "The Ring of the Nibeling"
His wife leaves him
Falls in love with Mathilde Wesendonck
1856-1859 he composes "Tristan"
Moves to Vienna in 1860
Flees in 1864 due to debt
Ludwig II offers him money
Wagner's spending bankrupt the country; Ludwig forced to exile the composer
Becomes romantically involved with Cosima von Bulow (Liszt’s daughter)
Begins building a festival theater in Bayreuth - first production in 1882 with the "Ring" cycle
Composed his final opera, "Parsifal"
Died in Venice, 1882

and opera must be more than a diversion
His idea

is called Gesamtkunstwerk
Totally revolutionized Harmony by completely avoiding resolution with known, stable chords
Orchestra is important now
Constructed scores with a symphonic sound in mind
The singing becomes an instrument in the overall effect
Expanded the size of the orchestra
Invented new instruments (the Wagner tuba)

was invented in the late 1800's to meet the

specifications of the composer Richard Wagner
He wanted an instrument that would add depth to the brass section and provide a tonal color that would bridge the colors of the horn and the trombone

It is usually played with a French horn mouthpiece by a horn player

Because of its brash tone quality, it is the perfect sound for depicting the bad guys in Wagner operas

German of men” and "the German spirit"
He composed 13

operas and numerous other compositions
He has been classified as an anarchist, a socialist, a proto-fascist, a nationalist, a vegetarian and an anti-Semite.
His name appeared in connection with almost all major trends in German history of the 19th and 20th centuries!
He wrote books and articles and around 10,000 letters

real father was probably Ludwig Geyer
Johanne Pätz (1774-1848)
First Wife:
Minna

Planer (1809-1865), no children
Second Wife:
Cosima von Bülow (1837-1930, the daughter of Franz Liszt), two children with Hans von Bülow and three children with Richard Wagner
Children:
Isolde (1865-1919), married to Franz Beidler
Eva (1867-1942), married to Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Siegfried (1869-1930), married to Winifred Williams Klindworth (1897-1980)

separating the real world (the viewers) from the ideal

world (the singers on the stage)
The inaugural festival in Bayreuth was attended by Kaiser Wilhelm of Prussia, King Ludwig of Bavaria (who insisted on secrecy and did not want to be seen by either his fellow royals or the people), Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, the rulers of various German principalities, nobility from all over Germany and Austria-Hungary, musicians such as Anton Bruckner, Edvard Grieg, Peter Tchaikovsky, Camille Saint-Saëns, Franz Liszt

legend
The Ring of the Nibelung
Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)
Die

Walkure (The Valkyrie)
Siegfried (Siegfried)
Gotterdammerung (The Twilight of the Gods)

in the Rhine)
Walkures (Brunhilde et al)
Giants (Fasolt & Fafner)
Wotan

(ruler of the gods who lives in Walhalla)
Fricka & Freia
Loge
Walsungs (Siegmund and Sieglinde = Siegfried)
Hunding
Nibelungs (Alberich & Mime)
Gibichungs (Gunther, Getrune & Hagen)

series of nine films it was soon realized as

a trilogy, and is in the process of becoming a hexalogy (six films).
The film trilogy was initiated with Episodes IV , V and VI.
Lucas then worked backwards with Episode I, more than two decades later, and is now working forwards with Episodes II and III
A gallery of aliens
Cult Following

.

The Ring
Four great (and long) operas, thematically connected and conceived as a single work - encompassing 15 to 16 hours of music and action. This huge project was realised after years of planning and work.
The opera tetralogy began with the text for Götterdämmerung. Then Wagner worked himself backwards with the texts, and then forwards with the music until it was completed more than two decades later.
A gallery of gods, dwarves
Cult Following

film studio, his own company for creation of new

and revolutionary visual effects (Industrial Light & Magic, founded in 1975) and his own standards for sound and image (THX).
In Star Wars Lucas uses newly developed computer techniques to create special visual and audio effects. Star Wars was the first film with a world-wide distribution to use the new Dolby stereo-optical sound system, a system which later has made possible the many surround systems.

Wagner creates his own theater (the Feststpielhaus in Bayreuth) in order to realize his ideals concerning the visual and audio effects.
The Festspielhaus in Bayreuth is built to present the Ring in the best possible way. Wagner hides the orchestra to create a new "sound" and a better balance between singers and orchestra. By hiding the orchestra and by turning out the lights in the theater, Wagner also ensured a much better visual illusion than what was previously possible. He also introduced a whole range of new sound effects, from hidden bells to the construction of new horns (the Wagner tuba), from the balancing of voice and orchestra to the special architecture of the hall. The hidden orchestra and the wooden construction turned the hall into a huge musical instrument with the audience inside. Bayreuth was the first, and is still the only place to do this.

a simple tale of good and evil, of love

and power. It makes you want to be a better person.
Light sabre = Sword
Luke Skywalker = Siegfried
Luke & Leia = Siegmund & Sieglinde
The Death Star = The Ring
Star Wars = symphonic film

The Ring is a complex tale of good and evil, of love and power. It also makes you want to be a better person.
Sword = Light sabre
Siegfried = Luke Skywalker
Siegmund & Sieglinde = Luke & Leia
The Ring = The Death Star
Der Ring des Nibelungen = symphonic opera

to be the single most important phenomenon in the

artistic life of the latter half of the nineteenth century?
A - Berlioz
B - Schubert
C - Wagner
D - Schumann

dramas is called:
A - Lohengrin
B - Tristan and Isolde
C

- The Ring of the Nibelung
D - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

tone poems
B - music dramas
C - oratorios
D - operettas

operas, which recur throughout a work and carry specific

meanings, are called:
A - libretti
B - leitmotifs
C - motives
D - fixed ideas