Aspects of Wagner /
Many music lovers find Wagner's operas inexpressibly beautiful and richly satisfying, while others find them revolting, dangerous, self-indulgent, and immoral. The man who W.H. Auden once called "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived" has inspired both greater adulation and grea...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1988
Oxford [England] ; New York : 1988 Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : 1988 Oxford ; New York : 1988 Oxford [England] ; New York : 1988 |
| Edition: | Rev. and enl. ed |
| Series: | Oxford paperbacks
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Table of Contents:
- Wagner's theory of opera
- Jews - not least in music
- Wagnerolatry
- The influence of Wagner
- Wagner in performance
- Wagner as music
- Wagner's theory of opera
- Jews
- not least in music
- Wagnerolatry
- The influence of Wagner
- Wagner in performance
- Wagner as music
- 1 Wagner's Theory of Opera 1
- 2 Jews--Not Least in Music 17
- 3 Wagnerolatry 29
- 4 The Influence of Wagner 45
- 5 Wagner in Performance 57
- 6 Wagner as Music 73