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Wagner his life and music

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  • "Well over a century after Wagner's death, the man and his music are as controversial as ever. Praised for his profound insights into the workings of the human heart, he has also been condemned as a dangerous libertine, a proto-fascist and an arrogant bore. His vast four-part Ring cycle has been elevated as one of the greatest achievements of western culture and dismissed as a unparalleled example of creative megalomania. Stephen Johnson's biography makes no attempt to gloss over the darker sides of Wagner's character, but argues that the finer aspects of his vision transcend its flaws. It tells the story of an extraordinary life and charts Wagner's development into the creator of some of the most briliantly innovative and seductively beautiful music ever composed."
  • "Well over a century after Wagner's death, the man and his music are as controversial as ever. Praised for his profound insights into the workings of the human heart, he has also been condemned as a dangerous libertine, a proto-fascist and an arrogant bore. His vast four-part operatic Ring cycle has been elevated as one of the greatest achievements of western culture and dismissed as an unparalleled example of creative megalomania. No attempt is made to gloss over the darker sides of Wagner's character, personally or artistically, but argues that the finer aspects of his vision transcend its flaws. It tells the story of an extraordinary life, and charts Wagner's development, from unpromising beginnings, into the creator of some of the most brilliantly innovatory and seductively beautiful music ever composed."

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  • "Audiobooks"
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  • "Biography"
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  • "Wagner his life and music"

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