Symbol and Form: the Grimm Brothers by Richard Wagner

Authors

  • Miguel Salmerón Infante Professor of Aesthetics Philosophy Department Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Autonomous University Madrid) , Profesor Contratado Doctor Área de Estética y Teoría de las Artes

Keywords:

symbol, genre, drame, tale, identity, tale recurrence, recurrence in music, leitmotiv

Abstract

This paper examines how and why Grimm´s Tales are present in Richard Wagner´s works. Providing with a more specific approach to this reflection, this analysis focusses on Siegfried, the densest Wagner´s Musical drama according fairy tales atmosphere in his opera omnia, and the influences and the thematical, formal and linguistical appropiations from the KHM, already studied. The article gives for granted that there are two elements used by Wagner in his musical dramas: symbols for the articulation of the German identity, and tale as a genre, with its recurrent topics and formulae he used for his music, as much as Leitmotiv is concerned, not to forget the frequent presence of an orphan as a character, as much as in Wagner as in Grimm Brothers.

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Author Biography

  • Miguel Salmerón Infante, Professor of Aesthetics Philosophy Department Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Autonomous University Madrid), Profesor Contratado Doctor Área de Estética y Teoría de las Artes

    Miguel Salmerón Infante is professor of Aesthetics at the Philosophy Department of Universidad Autónoma Madrid. He has directed three doctoral thesis (and currently manages seven), twelve Master Works, six papers on Advanced Studies and seven papers to grade. 

    He completed a research stay of two years in Julius Mximilians Universität Würzburg, and two teaching stays: in the Industrial University of Santander, Bucaramanga (Colombia) and the Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena.

    He ahieved the title of German Language translator in Complutense University of Madrid translator and has made editions in classic literature (Goethe, Hölderlin, Kafka, Hessel) and thought (Rosenkranz, Weber, Koselleck, Bloch).

    His research interests include aesthetics, aesthetics of music, new media and audiovisual formats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Richard Wagner.

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Published

2015-05-07

Issue

No. 6 (2015)

Section

ARTICLES

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How to Cite

Symbol and Form: the Grimm Brothers by Richard Wagner. (2015). Castilla. Estudios De Literatura, 6, 250-268. https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/castilla/article/view/272