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- Title
Wagner's "Ring," North-by-Northwest.
- Authors
Frank, Roberta
- Abstract
This article examines some of the prominent works of German composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner. Wagner's pan-Germanism in "Der Ring des Nibelungen" was part of this German takeover of the North, his words, music, and costumes calling up a subterranean politics of allusion and quotation. This article examines two aspects of this creative fusion. First, despite the name Der Ring des Nibelungen, in the cycle as a whole, and especially in "Die Walküre," Wagner made almost no use of the version of the story found in the Nibelungenlied, a courtly South German poem composed around 1200. Second, after pillaging the North, Wagner did his best to domesticate his booty, painting it as German.
- Subjects
SCANDINAVIA; GERMANY; WAGNER, Wilhelm Richard; DIE Walkure (Music); MUSICAL composition; COMPOSERS; OPERA; POETRY (Literary form); MYTHOLOGY; GERMAN folklore; MYTHOLOGY in music
- Publication
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2005, Vol 74, Issue 2, p671
- ISSN
0042-0247
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/utq.74.2.671