{"product_id":"anja-rosa-thoming-clairvoyance-psychologique-thomas-mann-s-1933-wagner-lecture-and-its-consequences","title":"Anja-Rosa Thöming, ‘Clairvoyance Psychologique’: Thomas Mann’s 1933 Wagner Lecture and its Consequences","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thewagnerjournal.co.uk\/products\/the-wagner-journal-july-2026-volume-20-number-2?utm_source=copyToPasteBoard\u0026amp;utm_medium=product-links\u0026amp;utm_content=web\"\u003eJuly 2026, Volume 20, Number 2\u003c\/a\u003e, 42–53.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThomas Mann was not only a Wagnerian in his private life from his earliest youth, but his immersion in the music dramas in the opera house, in the concert hall, and at home on the gramophone and at the piano shaped his thinking and his literary output, as he himself repeatedly emphasised. In the autumn of 1944, shortly after becoming an American citizen, he made the following confession in his diary: ‘Listened late into the night to Elsa’s dream, the magical “In lichter Waffen Scheine”, the Rome Narration, very powerful, then the final scene of \u003cem\u003eRheingold \u003c\/em\u003ewith the indescribably mawkish and heart-rending “Traulich und treu ist’s nur in der Tiefe”. The triad-world of the \u003cem\u003eRing\u003c\/em\u003e is basically my musical home. And yet on the piano I cannot get enough of the Tristan chord.\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Wagner Journal","offers":[{"title":"Individual","offer_id":54364346286422,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Institution","offer_id":54364346319190,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/thewagnerjournal.co.uk\/products\/anja-rosa-thoming-clairvoyance-psychologique-thomas-mann-s-1933-wagner-lecture-and-its-consequences","provider":"The Wagner Journal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}