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The Meister
Prepared by Richard Kitson
Online only (2016)
The Meister. Quarterly Journal of the London Branch of the Wagner Society [MEI] was published from February 13, 1888 to November 25, 1895. The editor, William Ashton Ellis (1852-1915), was the well-known but somewhat abused English-language translator who prepared and edited an English-language translation of Wagner’s Gesammelte Schriften und Dichtung (1883) [Collected Writings and Poetry], later published in eight volumes under the title Richard Wagner’s Prose Works (1892-99). Ellis was assisted in the journal’s preparation by Edgar Frederick Jacques (1850-1907), sometime editor of the important British music journals The Musical World and The Musical Times. The aim of the editors of MEI as expressed at the outset of the first issue was “to show the English-speaking world the many aspects of the genius of the departed Master,” necessitated by the belief that few Anglophones were competent readers of German prose.
The publication dates of some of MEI’s issues appear to be related to significant events in Wagner’s life: all the first issues of each year are dated February 13, the anniversary of Wagner’s death on February 13, 1883, while all but the second issue May 20, 1888 are dated 2
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Family Letters support Richard Architect (Cambridge Depository Collection - Music) (Paperback)
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Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays
When Wagner published the first collection of his writings he was pleased to admit how well he wrote, even when young. Historians and musicians ever since have agreed that some of his most important and revelatory works were written when he was first establishing his reputation in Paris and Dresden. Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays provides translations of the first two volumes of his Gesammelte Schriften (1871-1873). These works reveal how committed he was to emphasizing Germanic qualities in his music and define his opposition to the music of France and Italy.
In addition to his influential essay on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, this volume includes two early essays on Germanic myth—"The Wibelungen" and "The Nibelungen-Myth"—his homages to Carl Maria von Weber, and the complete text of his autobiographical A German Musician in Paris, with its famous "Pilgrimage to Beethoven."
The volume concludes with his "Plan of Organisation of a German National Theatre" (1849), founded