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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Akal básica de bolsillo volume 75
Publisher
Ediciones Akal
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
11) Les recits caches de Richard Wagner: Art poetique, reve et sexualite du Vaisseau fantome a Parsifal
Author
Publisher
Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Français
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential--and also one of the most controversial--composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation, ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of Wagner's life, work and times. It considers a wide...
18) Wagner
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Biographical drama of composer Richard Wagner.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, a sweeping tale of passion, music, and the human heart's yearning for connection. An unlikely quartet is bound together across centuries and continents by the strange and spectacular history of Richard Wagner's masterpiece opera Tristan and Isolde.