Wagner
Subtitle: Race and Revolution
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780300051827
Subjects: Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; Composers & Musicians - Classical Vocalists; General; Wagner, Richard; Reference; Opera; Music; 1813-1883; Antisemitism; Criticism and interpretation; Revolutions; Views on antisemitism; Views on revolutions; Wagner, Richard,
Description: It has long been acknowledged that Richard Wagner was a virulent anti-Semite, yet the composer has also been characterized as an idealistic revolutionary. In this fascinating book, Paul Lawrence Rose argues that for Wagner, as for many other Germans, the idea of revolution always contained a racial and antisemitic core. He offers fresh and stimulating interpretations of Wagner's music based on an analysis of their revolutionary and anti-Semitic elements.