Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde

Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde by George Ainslie Hight is a comprehensive guide to Richard Wagner's famous opera, Tristan und Isolde. The book provides a detailed analysis of the opera's music, libretto, and themes, as well as its historical and cultural context. Hight explores the complex characters of Tristan and Isolde, their doomed love affair, and the philosophical and psychological ideas that underpin the work. The book also includes a discussion of the opera's reception and influence, and a guide to its performance history. This is an essential resource for anyone interested in Wagner's music, opera, or the Romantic era.Wagner's Tristan has often--even by Lichtenberger--been described as a philosophic work; and as abstract thought or philosophy, it is said, is foreign to art, a work which admits it must be condemned. Let us first understand what is meant by philosophy. It is surely a train of thought in the mind of the spectator, not in the object which he contemplates. Anything in the world may be the subject of philosophic thought, or may suggest it; there is plenty of philosophy to be drawn from a daisy, but we do not therefore call a daisy a philosophic flower. So, too, we may philosophize about Wagner's Tristan, but the philosophy is our own; it is not in the work.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.