La recepción temprana de Wagner en Estados Unidos: Wagner en la Kleindeutschland de Nueva York, 1854-1874

This study discusses the early reception of Richard Wagner’s music in New York, starting with the first documented performance of a work by Wagner in the city, in 1854, and the momentous production of Lohengrin at the Academy of Music, in 1874. It emphasizes the work of dissemination of Wagner’s music through the German community in the ambit (social and geographical) of the so-called Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany, in an attempt to better understand the impact of Wagner in America before the onset of the “Wagner-mania” during the years of the Gilded Age–and help us appreciate the presence of Wagner and his music in the United States through the 20th century and beyond.