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Anna Stoll Knecht University of Fribourg, Rue de la Mauguettaz 2, 1462 Yvonand, Switzerland

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Abstract

Richard Wagner's theoretical writings were intended to institute a tradition of interpretation that has had a major impact on the musical world from 1870 to the present day, in Europe and in the United States. In this essay, I concentrate on excerpts concerning conducting and singing practices, highlighting their interrelation in Wagner's view. I then turn to Cosima Wagner's reinterpretation of her late husband's theories and her attempt to codify this Wagnerian tradition of interpretation, contributing to provide a reassessment of the much-debated “Bayreuth style” of performance.

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  • Breckbill, David. The Bayreuth Singing Style around 1900 (PhD diss., Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1991).

  • Breckbill, David.Wagner on Record,” in Wagner in Performance, ed. by Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 153167.

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  • Breckbill, David.Performance, Singers,” in The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia, ed. by Nicholas Vazsonyi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 412418.

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  • Fifield, Christopher.Conducting Wagner: The Search for Melos,” in Wagner in Performance, ed. by Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 114.

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  • Fischer, Jens Malte.Die Meistersänger – Zur Geschichte des Wagner-Gesangs,” in Richard Wagner und seine Wirkung (Vienna: Zsolnay, 2013), 68109.

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  • La Grange, Henry Louis de. Gustav Mahler, vol. 4: A New Life Cut Short (1907–1911) (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008).

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  • Mösch, Stephan.Singendes Sprechen, sprechendes Singen. Aspekte des Wagner-Gesangs um 1900,” Wagnerspectrum no. 1 Schwerpunkt: Wagner-Gesang (2012), 929.

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  • Stam, Emlyn.Early Recordings as a Window onto Mahler’s 1903 Tristan,” in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in 1903 Vienna: Context, Impact, and Interpretation, ed. by Anastasia Belina and Anna Stoll Knecht (New York, NY: Routledge, forthcoming).

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  • Stauss, Sebastian.Bel Canto opera,” in The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia, ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 5558.

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  • Stoll Knecht, Anna.Wagner’s Apprenticeship,” in Wagner in Context, ed. by David Trippett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 239248.

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  • Walton, Chris. Richard Wagner’s Essays on Conducting: A New Translation with Critical Commentary (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2021).

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