Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 340
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4422-7352-8 • Hardback • October 2016 • $137.00 • (£105.00)
978-1-4422-7353-5 • eBook • October 2016 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
Janita R. Hall-Swadley is a music researcher and German translator. She received her formal music training in musicology, piano performance, 19th-century philosophy, and German studies at Florida State University, The Boston Conservatory, and the University of North Texas. Her music focus is concentrated in the 19th century, especially in the independent study of the music and ideologies of Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann.
Foreword by Nicolas Dufetel, IReMus (Institut de recherche en musicologie), CNRS//Université Paris-Sorbonne/Bibliothèque nationale de France/Ministère de la Culture, Paris
The Writings
1Tannhäuser and the Contest of Song at the Wartburg (1849)
2Lohengrin, the Great Romantic Opera by Richard Wagner, and its Premiere Performance in Weimar (on the Occasion of the Herder and Goethe Festival) (1850)
3The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner (1859)
4The Rhine’s Gold. On 1 January (1855)