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Book SynopsisThe man whom W. H. Auden called `perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived' has inspired both greater adulation and greater loathing than any other composer. In this penetrating analysis, Bryan Magee outlines the range and depth of Wagner's achievement, and shows how his complex and often erotic music expresses the repressed and highly charged contents of the psyche. He also examines Wagner's detailed stage directions, and the prose works in which he formulated hisideas, and sheds interesting new light on his anti-semitism.
Trade Review`Original and stimulating...the most lucid attempt I have yet read to explain the reasons for the continuing Wagner's music over friend and foe alike.' Music and Musicians
Table of ContentsWagner's theory of opera; Jews - not least in music; Wagnerolatry; the influence of Wagner; Wagner in performance; Wagner as music. Index.
