Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth Barry Millington
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Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth

Author: Barry Millington
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Book Title
Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth
Author
Barry Millington
Book Condition
GOOD - one tear to dustjacket rear
ISBN
9780500516430
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Year Published
2012
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and 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 offers an in-depth and utterly approachable account of Wagner's life, work and times. Moving at a fast pace, it encompasses a refreshingly wide range of themes, from the composer's sources of inspiration, his fetish for exotic silks, and his relationship with his wives and mistresses, to accusations of anti-semitism, the operas' proto-cinematic nature, and the turbulent legacy both of the Bayreuth Festival and of Wagnerism itself.

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and 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 offers an in-depth and utterly approachable account of Wagner's life, work and times. Moving at a fast pace, it encompasses a refreshingly wide range of themes, from the composer's sources of inspiration, his fetish for exotic silks, and his relationship with his wives and mistresses, to accusations of anti-semitism, the operas' proto-cinematic nature, and the turbulent legacy both of the Bayreuth Festival and of Wagnerism itself.

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and 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 offers an in-depth and utterly approachable account of Wagner's life, work and times. Moving at a fast pace, it encompasses a refreshingly wide range of themes, from the composer's sources of inspiration, his fetish for exotic silks, and his relationship with his wives and mistresses, to accusations of anti-semitism, the operas' proto-cinematic nature, and the turbulent legacy both of the Bayreuth Festival and of Wagnerism itself.