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Being Wagner

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Being Wagner

By Simon Callow

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About the book

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. 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 Ca...Show more

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9780008105716

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HarperCollins Publishers

Published year

2018

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1

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Being Wagner

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Paperback

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