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_id: '57579'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Richard Wagner is considered a prominent critic of incidental music, as he
    called for the abolition of randomly inserted music between acts in plays. However,
    he greatly appreciated music composed especially for a play, such as Beethoven's
    music for Goethe's Egmont. In the early 1830s, he himself wrote several pieces
    of music for plays that have not been fully preserved. The text analyses Wagner's
    theatre music aesthetics in the context of contemporary aesthetics and theatre
    practice and provides a general overview of the music that has been handed down.
    His surviving theatre overtures show a high level of musical sophistication in
    the early engagement with symphonic music, as well as an effort to shape instrumental
    music according to dramatic content. They point to role models such as Beethoven
    and Mendelssohn. A more practical theatrical view of Wagner's theatrical music
    could open up new perspectives for his theatrical music and insights into the
    theatrical practice of the time.
author:
- first_name: Antje
  full_name: Tumat, Antje
  id: '72268'
  last_name: Tumat
citation:
  ama: Tumat A. Wagners frühe Schauspielmusiken – Ästhetik und Theaterpraxis. <i>Wagner-Spektrum</i>.
    2024;2:71-83.
  apa: Tumat, A. (2024). Wagners frühe Schauspielmusiken – Ästhetik und Theaterpraxis.
    <i>Wagner-Spektrum</i>, <i>2</i>, 71–83.
  bibtex: '@article{Tumat_2024, title={Wagners frühe Schauspielmusiken – Ästhetik
    und Theaterpraxis}, volume={2}, journal={Wagner-Spektrum}, publisher={Königshausen
    und Neumann}, author={Tumat, Antje}, year={2024}, pages={71–83} }'
  chicago: 'Tumat, Antje. “Wagners frühe Schauspielmusiken – Ästhetik und Theaterpraxis.”
    <i>Wagner-Spektrum</i> 2 (2024): 71–83.'
  ieee: A. Tumat, “Wagners frühe Schauspielmusiken – Ästhetik und Theaterpraxis,”
    <i>Wagner-Spektrum</i>, vol. 2, pp. 71–83, 2024.
  mla: Tumat, Antje. “Wagners frühe Schauspielmusiken – Ästhetik und Theaterpraxis.”
    <i>Wagner-Spektrum</i>, vol. 2, Königshausen und Neumann, 2024, pp. 71–83.
  short: A. Tumat, Wagner-Spektrum 2 (2024) 71–83.
date_created: 2024-12-04T16:21:00Z
date_updated: 2025-02-08T16:17:08Z
department:
- _id: '233'
- _id: '856'
intvolume: '         2'
language:
- iso: ger
page: 71-83
publication: Wagner-Spektrum
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-3-8260-8902-2
publication_status: published
publisher: Königshausen und Neumann
status: public
title: Wagners frühe Schauspielmusiken – Ästhetik und Theaterpraxis
type: journal_article
user_id: '72268'
volume: 2
year: '2024'
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