2017, ISBN: 0008105693

[EAN: 9780008105693], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.08], [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London], SIMON CALLOW BEING WAGNER THE TRIUMPH OF WILL, The perfect introdu… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780008105693], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.08], [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London], SIMON CALLOW BEING WAGNER THE TRIUMPH OF WILL, The perfect introduction to the Master. One hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagners music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. They have never been more popular, nor so violently controversial and divisive. As a man, he was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten great mature masterpieces constitute an unmatched body of work, created against a backdrop of poverty, revolution, violent controversy, critical contempt and hysterical hero-worship. His work often dealt with myth, but his own life had the character of a fable. At one point, in his early fifties, desperately poor after a life of heroic productivity, he had four lengthy operas written with no hope of seeing them done, when, as if in a fairy-tale, he was rescued by a beautiful young king with limitless wealth. When one of those works, Tristan and Isolde, was at last performed, it revolutionised classical music at a stroke. Wagner went on to create The Ring of the Nibelung: a vast epic in four massive segments, ushering gods and dwarves, heroes and thugs, dragons and rainbows onto the stage. This was the apotheosis of German art as he saw it, so extreme in its demands that he had to train a generation of singers and players to perform it, and erect a custom-built theatre to house it. Wagner died, exhausted, after creating one final piece Parsifal that seems to point to an even more radical new future for music. Simon Callow plunges the reader headlong into Wagners world, examining the intellectual and artistic climate in which Wagner, a composer like no other who ever lived, extreme in everything, creator of perhaps the most sublime and most troubling body of work in the history of music. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Books<

2017, ISBN: 0008105693

[EAN: 9780008105693], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.07], [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London], SIMON CALLOW BEING WAGNER THE TRIUMPH OF WILL, The perfect introdu… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780008105693], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.07], [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London], SIMON CALLOW BEING WAGNER THE TRIUMPH OF WILL, The perfect introduction to the Master. One hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagners music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. They have never been more popular, nor so violently controversial and divisive. As a man, he was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten great mature masterpieces constitute an unmatched body of work, created against a backdrop of poverty, revolution, violent controversy, critical contempt and hysterical hero-worship. His work often dealt with myth, but his own life had the character of a fable. At one point, in his early fifties, desperately poor after a life of heroic productivity, he had four lengthy operas written with no hope of seeing them done, when, as if in a fairy-tale, he was rescued by a beautiful young king with limitless wealth. When one of those works, Tristan and Isolde, was at last performed, it revolutionised classical music at a stroke. Wagner went on to create The Ring of the Nibelung: a vast epic in four massive segments, ushering gods and dwarves, heroes and thugs, dragons and rainbows onto the stage. This was the apotheosis of German art as he saw it, so extreme in its demands that he had to train a generation of singers and players to perform it, and erect a custom-built theatre to house it. Wagner died, exhausted, after creating one final piece Parsifal that seems to point to an even more radical new future for music. Simon Callow plunges the reader headlong into Wagners world, examining the intellectual and artistic climate in which Wagner, a composer like no other who ever lived, extreme in everything, creator of perhaps the most sublime and most troubling body of work in the history of music. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Books<

2017, ISBN: 0008105693

[EAN: 9780008105693], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.11], [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London], SIMON CALLOW BEING WAGNER THE TRIUMPH OF WILL, The perfect introdu… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780008105693], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.11], [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London], SIMON CALLOW BEING WAGNER THE TRIUMPH OF WILL, The perfect introduction to the Master. One hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagners music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. They have never been more popular, nor so violently controversial and divisive. As a man, he was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten great mature masterpieces constitute an unmatched body of work, created against a backdrop of poverty, revolution, violent controversy, critical contempt and hysterical hero-worship. His work often dealt with myth, but his own life had the character of a fable. At one point, in his early fifties, desperately poor after a life of heroic productivity, he had four lengthy operas written with no hope of seeing them done, when, as if in a fairy-tale, he was rescued by a beautiful young king with limitless wealth. When one of those works, Tristan and Isolde, was at last performed, it revolutionised classical music at a stroke. Wagner went on to create The Ring of the Nibelung: a vast epic in four massive segments, ushering gods and dwarves, heroes and thugs, dragons and rainbows onto the stage. This was the apotheosis of German art as he saw it, so extreme in its demands that he had to train a generation of singers and players to perform it, and erect a custom-built theatre to house it. Wagner died, exhausted, after creating one final piece Parsifal that seems to point to an even more radical new future for music. Simon Callow plunges the reader headlong into Wagners world, examining the intellectual and artistic climate in which Wagner, a composer like no other who ever lived, extreme in everything, creator of perhaps the most sublime and most troubling body of work in the history of music. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Books<

2017, ISBN: 0008105693

[EAN: 9780008105693], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 4.09], [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London], SIMON CALLOW BEING WAGNER THE TRIUMPH OF WILL, The perfect introduction… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780008105693], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 4.09], [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London], SIMON CALLOW BEING WAGNER THE TRIUMPH OF WILL, The perfect introduction to the Master. One hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagners music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. They have never been more popular, nor so violently controversial and divisive. As a man, he was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten great mature masterpieces constitute an unmatched body of work, created against a backdrop of poverty, revolution, violent controversy, critical contempt and hysterical hero-worship. His work often dealt with myth, but his own life had the character of a fable. At one point, in his early fifties, desperately poor after a life of heroic productivity, he had four lengthy operas written with no hope of seeing them done, when, as if in a fairy-tale, he was rescued by a beautiful young king with limitless wealth. When one of those works, Tristan and Isolde, was at last performed, it revolutionised classical music at a stroke. Wagner went on to create The Ring of the Nibelung: a vast epic in four massive segments, ushering gods and dwarves, heroes and thugs, dragons and rainbows onto the stage. This was the apotheosis of German art as he saw it, so extreme in its demands that he had to train a generation of singers and players to perform it, and erect a custom-built theatre to house it. Wagner died, exhausted, after creating one final piece Parsifal that seems to point to an even more radical new future for music. Simon Callow plunges the reader headlong into Wagners world, examining the intellectual and artistic climate in which Wagner, a composer like no other who ever lived, extreme in everything, creator of perhaps the most sublime and most troubling body of work in the history of music. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine., Books<

2017, ISBN: 9780008105693

William Collins, 2017-01-26. Hardcover. Good. 2.7979 in x 21.9833 in x 14.3891 in. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover., William Collins, 2017-… Mehr…

William Collins, 2017-01-26. Hardcover. Good. 2.7979 in x 21.9833 in x 14.3891 in. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover., William Collins, 2017-01-26, 2.5<