Richard Wagner |
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Author:
| Furness, Raymond |
Series title: | Critical Lives Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-78023-182-2 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Publisher: | Reaktion Books, Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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Few of the great composers can claim a body of work as influential and contentious as Richard Wagner; his life and compositions remain intertwined with the great upheavals of his time, and this often obscures a dispassionate critical assessment of his output. In Richard Wagner Raymond Furness...
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Few of the great composers can claim a body of work as influential and contentious as Richard Wagner; his life and compositions remain intertwined with the great upheavals of his time, and this often obscures a dispassionate critical assessment of his output. In Richard Wagner Raymond Furness provides a clear and balanced view of Wagner's great achievements, without neglecting the controversies in his life and art. Using the composer's wide-ranging engagement with mythology as his starting point, Furness explores Wagner's music and extensive literary output.