Aspects of Wagner - Hardcover

Magee, Bryan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192177680 ISBN 13: 9780192177681

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1988

Synopsis

This study analyzes the work of Wagner and discusses the reasons for the differing reactions his work has provoked. The author aims to show that Wagner's music expresses the repressed and highly charged contents of the psyche. He examines not only Wagner's music and detailed stage directions but also the prose works in which he formulated his ideas. He sheds light on his anti-semitism and the way in which his theories were twisted by the Nazis for their own ends. Wagner's influence on the culture of our age is outlined: his affect on musicians, poets, novelists, painters, philosophers and politicians. In this second edition Magee has revised the book throughout and added a chapter in which he considers the nature and role of the musical element in the operas.

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Review:

`Original and stimulating...the most lucid attempt I have yet read to explain the reasons for the continuing Wagner's music over friend and foe alike.' Music and Musicians

Book Description:

An original and stimulating exploration of Wagner's work

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0192177680
• ISBN 13: 9780192177681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 112