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Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Barry Emslie
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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Emslie's study of Wagner's creativity examines the centrality of love - and its obverse, hate - to the composer's world view.
The Consolations of History: Themes of Progress and Potential in Richard Wagner’s Gotterdammerung
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Alexander H. Shapiro
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-16 - Publisher: Routledge

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In this book on Richard Wagner’s compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Götterdämmerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H. Shapir
The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Mark Berry
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This Companion provides an overview and in-depth analysis of Wagner's Ring using traditional critical analysis alongside more recent approaches.
Tradition, Community, and Nationhood in Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Christopher Kimbell
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-07-02 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Since its premiere in 1868, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg has defied repeated upheavals in the cultural-political landscape of German statehood to
The Sorcerer of Bayreuth
Language: en
Pages: 620
Authors: Barry Millington
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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 l