Richard Wagner
Subtitle: New Light on a Musical Life
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780786445448
Subjects: Composers, biography; Composers, germany
Description: "This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, re-examining his life in light of new documents and new sensibilities. His life was a series of abandonments and traumas, for the self-destructive but creative genius, in which he tried to survive as a freelance composer in the hostile environments of l9th century Germany"--