Being Wagner
The Triumph of the Will
by Simon Callow
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Pub Date 26 Jan 2017 | Archive Date 21 Apr 2017
HarperCollins UK, 4th Estate | William Collins
Description
Over a century after his death, Richard Wagner’s music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. He was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten great mature masterpieces constitute an unmatched body of work, created against a backdrop of poverty, revolution, violent controversy, critical contempt and hysterical hero-worship.
In this book, Simon Callow plunges the reader headlong into Wagner’s world, examining the intellectual and artistic climate of this composer like no other who ever lived, creator of perhaps the most sublime and most troubling body of work in the history of music.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780008105709 |
| PRICE | £3.49 (GBP) |
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