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This new publication presents Wagner's much-loved opera in its entirety with a detailed preface by Egon Voss. The new Urtext Edition replaces the familiar edition by the conductor Felix Weingartner, published in 1897, and it was this version that which all later editions were based upon. Throughout its creation both during Wagner's lifetime and thereafter, The Flying Dutchman has gone through many revisions, making this new edition essential to any opera lover and a welcome addition to the repertoire. Instrumentation : Soprano, Alto, 2 Tenors, 2 Basses, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra WWV 63

Eulenburg Miniature Scores

An important addition to our newly produced orchestral materials is the first publication of vocal scores of Wagner's ten great operas, in every important version, based on the Complete Edition. The score corresponds to the performance materials from the Complete Edition. For practical use in rehearsal cues and bar numbers throughout. The publisher has secured the services of renewed musicologists associated with the Richard Wagner Complete Edition who convey detailed information in critical forewords. The forewords are given in three languages(German, English, French). Uniform and attractive front cover designs with reproductions of paintings from the Wagner era underline the series design of the edition. DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is today still considered a German festival and national opera : this evaluation is borne out by the opera's performance history, the history of its reception and customary performance practice. Critical minds will perhaps recall the quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche's publication "Jenseits von Gut und Böse" [Beyond Good and Evil] in which the Vorspiel [Prelude] to Meistersinger is described as 'magnificent, ornate and ponderous art' and Wagner's music in general as being 'rough and coarse'. This music according to Nietzsche possesses 'no trace of the fine southern clarity of the sky and nothing of grace', but instead 'a cumbersome garb, with a touch of licentious barbarism and solemnity' and 'even a certain degree of ungainliness'. Nietzsche's evaluation is regarded by many as an insight into the essence of the matter, although it is evident that Nietzsche was exaggerating in order to be provocative. What is more important today is however that this characterisation appears to have been the result of an approach to the performance of Meistersinger which had neglected or even gone as far as to misappropriate elements of this work. This is also the conclusion reached in the Meistersinger Edition of the Critical Complete Edition of the Musical Works of Richard Wagner (Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, Vol. 9, I-III, edited by Egon Voss, Mainz 1979-1987). It has in fact been established that the first print of the score published by B. Schott's Söhne in Mainz in 1868 contained numerous errors and omissions, particularly with regard to dynamic markings and articulation. The difference between staccato dots and dashes which has an influence on the tone was simply ignored. The substantial omission of these staccato markings unambiguously draws attention to the fact that Wagner intended a lighter-weight sound than was produced in adherence the first edition. The same also holds true for the dynamic markings which were submitted to a general levelling process in the first edition, thereby entirely masking their original broad scope of differentiation. [... ] When the saying 'the music sets the tone' is cited, it is in actual fact tempo, dynamics which are implied. If the new findings incorporated into the Meistersinger edition of the Critical Complete Edition are taken seriously, this will inevitably produce a new Meistersinger sound. " (Egon Voss, quoted from the foreword of the new Meistersinger vocal score ; translated by Lindsay Chalmers-Gerbracht) WWV 96

Wagner Urtext-Klavierauszüge

Hagen, fils d'Alberich, convoite toujours l'anneau. Il promet Brünnhilde à son demi-frère Günther sans lui dire qu'elle est l'épouse de Siegfried. Celui-ci, ayant bu un philtre qui lui a fait perdre la mémoire, ne sait plus que Brünnhilde est sa femme. Il va lui-même l'enlever à son rocher pour l'offrir à Günther. Hagen propose alors à Bünnhilde de la venger de cet affront et tue Siegfried d'un coup de lance dans le dos, mais ne peut prendre l'anneau que le héros tient serré dans sa main. Brünnhilde, qui a compris la machination du traître, fait dresser un bûcher où elle dépose le corps de Siegfried et se précipite elle-même dans les flammes. Le feu s'étend jusqu'au Walhalla, qui s'écroule.
Un crépuscule éternel va commencer pour les dieux ; l'univers restera sans maîtres, mais conservera un bien précieux entre tous qu'il devra chérir plus que l'or : l'amour. Et l'anneau retrouvera sa place dans les profondeurs du Rhin.
Après le prologue de L'Or du Rhin, La Walkyrie et Siegfried, Crépuscule des dieux est la troisième et dernière journée de L'Anneau du Nibelung.

Crepuscule des dieux - - bilingue allemand

The castle stands

By giants up reared.

With the Gods and the holy

Host of the heroes

Wotan sits in his hall;

And round the walls

Hewn logs are heaped,

High up-piled,

Ready for burning:

The world-ash-tree these were once.

Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods

With more than 1, 200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition. Instrumentation : soloists and orchestra WWV 90

Richard Wagner beschreibt in seiner Autobiographie »Mein Leben« die Zeit von seiner Geburt 1813 bis zum Jahr 1868. Wagner lebte bis 1883. 

Die Autobiographie zeigt einen schwierigen Aufstieg unter widrigen Bedingungen. Sein Vater verstarb sehr früh. Verschiedene Verwandte übernahmen die Erziehung.

Wagner wechselte in seinem Leben sehr häufig den Wohnort. Einige Male nahm er in anderen Städten berufliche Chancen wahr, mitunter war auch auf der Flucht vor seinen Gläubigern. Sein bewegtes Leben führte ihn unter anderem nach Leipzig, Dresden, Riga, Paris, Bayreuth, Zürich, und Tribschen bei Luzern. Hinzu kamen zahlreiche mehrwöchige und mehrmonatige Auslandsaufenthalte, deren inspirierende Kraft Richard Wagner zur Vollendung seiner Kompositionen nutzte.

Wagners unterhaltsame Autobiographie »Mein Leben« zeigt einen Menschen, der trotz zahlreicher Rückschläge stets weiter komponierte, mutig neue Chancen wahrnahm und schließlich mit dem ganz großen Durchbruch belohnt wurde.

Mein Leben - Autobiographie

(Vocal Score). German/English. Translated by MacFarren.

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