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This study explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career, and offers a reassessment of the ideological and political history of 'Parsifal' that illuminates the connection of Wagner's legacy to the rise of National Socialism in Germany. The compositional genesis is traced through many unfamiliar sketches and manuscript sources held at Bayreuth, revealing unsuspected models and veiled connections to Wagner's earlier works.
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Process of Composition -- 1. Poem: Its Background and Evolution -- Carlo Gozzi's La donna serpente -- Paris and Dresden Periods -- Parzival as Wandering Pilgrim in Tristan und Isolde -- Kundry as a Mysterious Compound Being -- Prose Draft of 1865 -- Completion of the Text -- 2. Genesis of the Music -- "Dresden Amen" and "Excelsior!" Motives -- Sketch Fragments and Their Reconstruction -- Earliest Sketches -- "Core of the Whole": the Music of the Grail -- Relation of Sketches and Drafts -- Act 1 -- Act 2 -- Act 3 -- Revisions after April 1879 -- Transformation Music of Act I -- pt. 2 Musical Form and Dramatic Meaning -- 3. Wagner's Late Style -- 4. Grail and Anti-Grail -- 5. Sense of an Ending.