Lors de son premier sejour a Paris, entre 1839 et 1842, Richard Wagner survit en e€ ectuant divers travaux musicaux alimentaires. Il ecrit egalement quatre nouvelles publiees directement en francais dans la Gazette musicale et qui sont ses seules oeuvres litteraires de fi ction. On les trouvera ici rassemblees, ainsi qufune premiere á.Esquisse autobiographique.â, couvrant les trente premieres annees de sa vie.
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Un musicien étranger à Paris et autres nouvelles ; une esquisse autobiographique

Tristan et iseult (bilingue)

Richard Wagner etait un compositeur de musique qui aurait voulu, dans sa jeunesse, etre Shakespeare avant d'etre Beethoven. Ce livre regroupe ses uvres litteraires (des nouvelles) evoquant la musique et la vie d'un musicien."

La vie d'un musicien

le christianisme pour les nuls

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. DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (1842-1880 version) "This piano reduction is based on the edition of Der fliegende Holländer from the Critical Complete Edition of Richard Wagner's works (Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke [Collected works], Vol. 4, III-VI, edited by Egon Voss, Mainz, 2000f.) The primary source for this edition was the first print of the score dating from 1845 which had however been augmented utilising the sources of additions undertaken after 1845, meaning that this edition is actually a compilation of the final versions of all individual sections or relevant details. The overture for example dates back to 1860 whereas No. 1 appears in the version from 1864. What is however most significant is that the versions from the Collected Editions based on new sources is without doubt closer to the original than the score from 1897 edited by Felix Weingartner which had previously formed the basis for all editions and logically also for all performances. " (Egon Voss, quoted from the foreword of the new Der fliegende Holländer vocal score) Original version and 1842-1880 version The original version of Der fliegende Holländer dates from 1841. Wagner, at the time a completely unknown Kapellmeister in France, trying to get a foothold in Paris, saw the opportunity for a stage work that would meet the fashion at the Paris Opera of performing several short works one after another. Der fliegende Holländer, conceived in 1840 and composed in 1841, seemed to him suited to the purpose. In 1841, even when Wagner no longer counted on a success in Paris, he still held to the conception of a one-act opera and offered the work to German opera houses under the title of "Romantic Opera in One Act and Three Scenes". This version is set in Scotland, taking as the literary model for the opera Heinrich Heine's novel fragment "From the Memoirs of Mr. Schnabelewopski", and the protagonists have English names. This version was never performed in Wagner's lifetime. Beginning in 1842, the work went through a tale of constant revision : Even before the Dresden premiere (2nd January 1843) Wagner undertook fundamental alterations. He transposed the location from Scotland to Norway, changed character's names as appropriate, divided the opera into three acts - not least due to considerations of scene changes - and transposed Senta's Ballad from A minor to G minor. It was in this version that the score of the opera went to print in 1845. For a performance in 1860 he composed the later so-called 'Tristan' or 'Redemption' ending to the Overture. Until the very end of his life, Wagner contemplated a plan for a final score or a definitive vocal score : it never came to be, so that to this day, as with Tannhäuser, we still do not have Der fliegende Holländer in a final version. Based on the research conducted in the creation of the Complete Edition, our editions contain, in one case the original version of 1841, while the other essentially goes back to the first printing of the score of 1845, but with the addition of the source material for the retouchings dating from 1842 to 1889. VOCAL SCORES The original version of the opera was made available for the first time in a vocal score in 2005 (ED 8065). The completely revised new edition of the vocal score of the 1842-1880 version appeared in 2011 (ED 20531). WWV 63

Wagner Urtext-Klavierauszüge

Nietzsche et Wagner dans leur intimité ! Compte tenu de l'importance des personnages, la chose suffirait déjà amplement à mériter notre attention. Mais il y a bien plus pour mériter notre attention dans cette correspondance. Bien plus, car on assiste ici à la naissance de la philosophie de Nietzsche cherchant alors un modèle de sagesse chez Wagner censé ressusciter les tragiques grecs. Bien plus encore, car en voyant ici Wagner travailler à son rêve de Bayreuth et, plus profondément, à son ambitieux projet de renaissance de la civilisation allemande et en voyant ici le jeune Nietzsche tenter d'oeuvrer à ce double projet au côté de Wagner, son aîné de 31 ans, ce qu'on voit, à sa source, c'est le projet, plus ambitieux encore, de refondation de la civilisation humaine tout entière que Zarathoustra viendra chanter bien des années plus tard.
Bien plus enfin, car on peut aussi à la lecture de ces lettres comprendre pourquoi les sentiments chaleureux dont elles témoignent devaient se transformer en farouche hostilité : on accepte mal de s'être laissé longtemps fasciner, subjuguer - fût-ce par le plus charmeur des artistes - quand on s'appelle Nietzsche.

Correspondance Nietzsche-Wagner

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. PARSIFAL "This piano reduction corresponds to the edition of Parsifal contained in the critical Complete Edition of the musical works of Richard Wagner (Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, Vol. 14, I-III, edited by Egon Voss and Martin Geck, Mainz 1972f.) The chief source for the edition was Wagner's autograph score, as the first printed score dating from 1883 on which all previous editions had been based had not been authorised by the composer and displayed significant deviations in comparison with the autograph. Further details can be found in the above-mentioned volumes of the Complete Edition. " (Amélie Pauli, quoted from the foreword of the new Parsifal vocal score ; translated by Lindsay Chalmers-Gerbracht) WWV 111

Paru chez Grasset en 1935, les Lettres françaises de Wagner est pour cette édition dans les Cahiers rouges concentré aux cinquante plus importantes lettres du compositeur. La première date de 1840, la dernière de 1882, un an avant sa mort. Elles montrent l'importance du rôle de la France pour sa carrière et sa vie personnelle. Elles rappellent, d'abord, la misère et la tristesse dans laquelle il a vécu lors de son premier séjour à Paris, sa découverte de la musique contemporaine française, son admiration pour Berlioz, son émotion après avoir lu l'éloge d'un de ses opéras par Gérard de Nerval. Elles révèlent, ensuite, sa grande proximité avec Liszt, à qui il confie ses émois, ses doutes, ses joies et déceptions artistiques. Elles révèlent, enfin, son intimité, de l'amitié avec Catulle Mendès à son amour fou pour sa femme, Judith Gautier, fille de Théophile, en passant par sa solitude et sa souffrance. Le meilleur de Wagner, loin des délires de ses pamphlets contre les Juifs dans la musique et autres délires idéologico-mystiques. Entre chacune des lettres, un commentaire revient sur le contexte dans lequel Wagner les écrit : à quelle oeuvre il travaille, qui il fréquente, la bienveillance ou, plus souvent, la malveillance de la critique à son égard, l'état des rapports entre les nations d'Europe, notamment la France et l'Allemagne. Les informations sont si nombreuses, et les lettres si personnelles, qu'on pourrait qualifier ce livre d'autobiographie. L'intimité d'un génie de la musique.

Un musicien étranger à Paris et autres nouvelles ; une esquisse autobiographique

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