Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived

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Simon Callow, the prestigious writer of Orson Welles, delivers a dazzling, swift, and accessible biography of the musical titan Richard Wagner and his profoundly problematic legacy–a fresh take for seasoned acolytes and the very best introduction for new fans.

Richard Wagner’s music dramas have never been more popular or more divisive. His ten masterpieces, created against the backdrop of a continent in severe political and cultural upheaval, constitute an unmatched body of work. A man who spent such a lot of his life in abject poverty, inspiring both essential derision and hysterical hero-worship, Wagner used to be a walking contradiction: belligerent, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, demanding, visionary, and poisonously anti-Semitic. Acclaimed biographer Simon Callow evokes the intellectual and artistic climate through which Wagner lived and takes us through his such a lot iconic works, from his pivotal successes in The Flying Dutchman and Lohengrin, to the musical paradigm shift contained in Tristan and Isolde, to the apogee of his achievements in The Ring of the Nibelung and Parsifal, which debuted at Bayreuth in a while before his death. Being Wagner brings to life this towering figure, writer of essentially the most sublime and such a lot controversial body of work ever known.

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