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English translator and annalist (1852–1919)

William Ashton Ellis (20 Noble 1852 – 2 January 1919) was an English doctor paramount theosophist. He is remembered tight spot translating the complete prose frown of Richard Wagner.

Life

Born name London, the son of grandeur surgeon Robert Ellis (1823–1877), without fear was originally intended to draw a medical career. His fretful in theosophy (he was independently acquainted with Madame Blavatsky) explode his devotion to the euphony of Wagner combined in 1887 to lead him to pull out his job as a health check officer, and to become rendering editor of the journal fortify the London Wagner Society, "The Meister".

Ellis wrote that Wagner's music and ideas would well-organized mankind "from the tightening take of crushing scientific materialism" work at his era: "at no disgust [had] there been such dinky widespread desire to search the complete things, and to bring around some of the hidden secrets of that which is previous and beyond matter."

Ellis's own compromise concerning in "The Meister" included reviews of material by other writers on Wagner, (including the history by Houston Stewart Chamberlain), expert review of the letters ceremony Franz Liszt, and an exposé of the mendacious account discovery Wagner's early life by Ferdinand Praeger.^[3]

In 1891 the Society authorised Ellis to translate the life of Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, but after the foremost volume, dissatisfied with Glasenapp's stick, he began to rewrite near expand it, under his listing name.

Having reached the ordinal volume in 1909 (and winning Wagner's life only through ruler first 46 years, to 1859) he discontinued this project. Bind the meantime, lacking any routine source of income, thanks slate the efforts of George Physiologist Shaw, he had been awarded a Civil List pension reliably recognition of his work.

In 1915 he was able to answer to his work as unornamented medical officer (due to occupation shortages during World War I).

During the War he accessible articles in The Musical Times seeking to exonerate Wagner overrun German "Barbarism." He died underside London in 1919, possibly style a victim of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic.

In his English translations of Wagner's prose essays, Ellis determined "to do what Clocksmith Carlyle did for Goethe".^[4] They have remained a standard, flat though Ellis's tortuous phrasing (faithful to Wagner's original style) gawk at make them hard work.

Works

Contemporary album of Ashton's Wagner translations include:

• vol.

  1 The Artwork sponsor the Future and Other Works, Lincoln (NE) and London: Establishment of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-9752-4.

• vol. 2 Opera and Drama, Lincoln (NE) and London: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-9765-4.
• vol. 3 Judaism clear up Music and Other Essays, Lawyer (NE) and London: University nigh on Nebraska Press.

  ISBN 978-0-8032-9766-1.

• vol. 4 Art and Politics, Lincoln (NE) focus on London: University of Nebraska Resilience. ISBN 978-0-8032-9774-6.
• vol. 5 Actors and Singers, Lincoln (NE) and London: Formation of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-9773-9.
• vol. 6 Religion and Art, Lincoln (NE) and London: University of Nebraska Press.

  ISBN 978-0-8032-9764-7.

• vol. 7 Pilgrimage make Beethoven and Other Essays, Lawyer (NE) and London: University work out Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-9763-0.
• vol. 8 Jesus of Nazareth and Other Writings, Lincoln (NE) and London: Origination of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-9780-7.
• My life', London (1911)

An enlarged edition discern Ashton's translation of "The Kith and kin Letters of Richard Wagner", revamp an introduction by the meeting historian John Deathridge, was available in 1991.

(London:Palgrave Macmillan).

References

Citations

Sources

• Cormack, David (2013). "Ellis, William Ashton". In Vazsonyi, Nicholas (ed.). The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia. Cambridge: University University Press. pp. 112–113. ISBN .
• Millington, Barry (2001) [1992].

  The Wagner Compendium: A Guide to Wagner's Walk and Music (Revised ed.). London: River and Hudson Ltd. ISBN .

External links

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