Fervaal, Parsifal, and French National Identity

Abstract

This article is a discussion of Vincent d'Indy's opera Fervaal, which famously borrowed musical and dramatic ideas from Wagner's Parsifal. My purpose is, first, to provide a thick description of the nationalist contexts—cultural, intellectual, religious and ethnic—within which d'Indy's opera was composed and performed in the late 1890s; and, second, to show how these contexts contribute to a broader understanding of Wagner's influence in France.

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