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Table of Contents: “…-- The archetypal theatrical scene : from Leubald to Die Feen -- A word about Felix Mendelssohn -- The blandishments of grand opera : das Liebesverbot and Rienzi -- A word about Giacomo Meyerbeer -- "Deep shock" and "a violent change of direction" : der Fliegende Holländer -- A word about Heinrich Heine -- Rituals to combat fear and loneliness: Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg -- A word about Josef Rubinstein -- A bedtime story with dire consequences : Lohengrin -- A word about Arnold Schoenberg -- The revolutionary drafts : Achilles, Jesus of Nazareth, Siegfried's death and Wieland the Smith -- A word about Paul Bekker -- "We have art so as not to be destroyed by the truth" : the Ring as a nineteenth-century myth -- A word about Angelo Neumann -- "My music making is in fact magic making, for I just cannot produce music coolly and mechanically" : the art of the Ring ; seen from the beginning -- A word about George Steiner -- "He resembles us to a tee; he is the sum total of present-day intelligence" : the art of the Ring ; Wotan's music -- A word about Sergei Eisenstein -- "A mystical pit, giving pleasure to individuals" : Tristan und Isolde -- A word about Ernst Bloch -- "A magnificent, overcharged, heavy, late art" : die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -- A word about Berthold Auerbach -- "They're hurrying on toward their end, though they think they will last for ever" : the art of the Ring ; seen from the end -- A word about Theodor W. …”

Table of Contents: “…EK; RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO; PIETRO MASCAGNI; JULES MASSENET; GIAN CARLO MENOTTI; GIACOMO MEYERBEER; CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI; DOUGLAS S. MOORE; WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART; MODEST MUSSORGSKY; JACQUES OFFENBACH; HANS PFITZNER; AMILCARE PONCHIELLI; FRANCIS POULENC; SERGEI PROKOFIEV; GIACOMO PUCCINI; HENRY PURCELL; MAURICE RAVEL; NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV; GIOACHINO ROSSINI; CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS; ARNOLD SCHOENBERG; DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH; BEDR . …”
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