Resumo

O ensaio “Música do futuro” de Richard Wagner foi escrito em um momento crítico na vida do compositor. Ele procurava se afastar de conceitos divulgados por ele em textos anteriores e percebia claramente a distância entre seus ideais teóricos da década de 1840 sobre a obra de arte total (Gesamtkunstwerk) e sua prática composicional da década de 1850. O texto aqui apresentado investiga as contradições entre reflexão e prática wagnerianas durante o período mencionado.

An aesthetic-musical crossroad: “Music of the future” by Richard Wagner

The essay “Music of the future” by Richard Wagner was written in a critical moment in composer's life. He was attempting to take distance from concepts disseminated by him in former texts, and has clearly perceived the distance between his theoretical ideals of the 1840's about the total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk) and his compositional practice of the 1850's. The text bellow investigates the contradictions between Wagnerian reflection and practice during the mentioned period.