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.
| ISBN: | 9780008105716 |
| Publication date: | 25th January 2018 |
| Author: | Simon Callow |
| Publisher: | William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Composers and songwriters Art music, orchestral and formal music Music composition Biography: arts and entertainment Theory of music and musicology History of music Musicians, singers, bands and groups |
The perfect introduction to the Master.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.
Being Wagner features in the following genres: Composers and songwriters, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Music composition, Biography: arts and entertainment, Theory of music and musicology, History of music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups
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Being Wagner was written by Simon Callow and published by William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Being Wagner has 256 pages