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a| The sorcerer of Bayreuth :
b| Richard Wagner, his work, and his world /
c| Barry Millington.
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a| New York :
b| Oxford University Press,
c| ©2012.
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a| 320 pages :
b| illustrations (some color) ;
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a| Includes bibliographical references and index.
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g| Father of the man: paternity and childhood --
g| Learning the craft: youthful apprenticeship --
g| Earning his keep: first professional appointments --
g| Under the yoke:
t| Kapellmeister in Dresden --
g| The eternal wanderer:
t| Der fliegende Holländer --
g| Desperately seeking Venus:
t| Tannhäuser --
g| Swansong to traditional opera:
t| Lohengrin --
g| Revolutionary road:
t| uprising in Dresden --
t| The Zurich years: Wagner's exile in Switzerland --
t| The rise and fall of Valhalla: Der Ring des Nibelungen --
g| 'Most excellent friend':
t| Franz Liszt --
t| Muses, mistresses and mother-figures: Wagner's women --
t| The behemoth of Bayreuth: Wagner's personality --
g| Always short: Wagner and money --
g| In the pink: the role of silks and satins in Wagner's life --
g| 'My adored and angelic friend':
t| Ludwig II --
g| Fatal attraction:
t| Tristan und Isolde --
g| 'Art is what matters here':
t| Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg --
g| Grit in the oyster:
t| the role of anti-Semitism in Wagner's life and work --
g| Creative spark: sources of inspiration in Wagner's work --
g| The silent sufferer:
t| Cosima Wagner --
t| Tribschen idyll: the Lucerne years --
g| A home for the gods:
t| the Bayreuth project --
g| Wagner's last card:
t| Parsifal --
g| Death in Venice: the events of Wagner's last days --
t| Perfect and imperfect Wagnerites: the spread of the Wagner cult --
g| Panning for gold:
t| Wagner and cinema --
t| Swastikas over Bayreuth: Wagner and the Third Reich --
g| Regime change: the grandsons usher in the era of new Bayreuth --
g| Renewing the legacy: Bayreuth today and in the future.
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a| Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential--and also one of the most 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 presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of Wagner's life, work and times. It considers a wide range of themes, including the composer's original sources of inspiration; his fetish for exotic silks; his relationship with his wife, Cosima, and with his mistress, Mathilde Wesendonck; the anti-semitism that is undeniably present in the operas; their proto-cinematic nature; and the turbulent legacy both of the Bayreuth Festival and of Wagnerism itself. Making use of the very latest scholarship--much of it undertaken by the author himself in connection with his editorship of The Wagner Journal--the author reassesses received notions about Wagner and his work, demolishing ill-informed opinion in favour of proper critical understanding. It is a radical--and occasionally controversial--reappraisal of this most perplexing of composers. The volume's arrangement--unique among books on the composer--combines an accessible text, intriguing images and original documents, thus ensuring a consistently fresh approach.
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