num_pages: 160
description: Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner’s oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the modern Culture Industry.
language: English
title: In Search of Wagner
titlecomplete: In Search of Wagner (Verso Modern Classics)
genres: Classical Music, Music, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Essays, Germany, Theory
ratings_count: 121
publisher: Verso