Richard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life

Richard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life
ISBN-10
0786485027
ISBN-13
9780786485024
Series
Richard Wagner
Category
Music
Pages
228
Language
English
Published
2013-12-19
Publisher
McFarland
Author
John Louis DiGaetani

Description

This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, 200 years after his birth, re-examining his life in light of new documents and new sensibilities. Since World War II Wagner has often been wrongly associated with Adolf Hitler because Hitler liked Wagner's music and used it in Nazi propaganda. But Wagner died in 1883--fifty years before Hitler's regime. It is time to have a fresh look at Wagner's life without the Nazi associations. His life was a series of abandonments and traumas for the self-destructive but creative genius, as he tried to survive as a freelance composer in the hostile environments of 19th century Germany.

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