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Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived

Callow, Simon, 1949- author

Overview

Richard Wagner's music dramas have never been more popular or more divisive. His ten masterpieces, created against the backdrop of a continent in severe political and cultural upheaval, constitute an unmatched body of work. A man who spent most of his life in abject poverty, inspiring both critical derision and hysterical hero-worship, Wagner was a walking contradiction: belligerent, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, demanding, visionary, and poisonously anti-Semitic. Acclaimed biographer Simon Callow evokes the intellectual and artistic climate in which Wagner lived and takes us through his most iconic works, from his pivotal successes in The Flying Dutchman and Lohengrin, to the musical paradigm shift contained in Tristan and Isolde, to the apogee of his achievements in The Ring of the Nibelung and Parsifal, which debuted at Bayreuth shortly before his death. Being Wagner brings to life this towering figure, creator of the most sublime and most controversial body of work ever known.

• Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
• Subject: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. / Composers Germany Biography. / Opera 19th century History. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music. / HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
• ISBN: 9780525436188, 0525436189

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
ML410.W1 C3 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE