Wagner's Musical Prose
Subtitle: Texts and Contexts (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780521033190
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Music; Music/Songbooks; Composers & Musicians - Classical Vocalists; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; Music-History & Criticism - General; Wagner, Richard, --1813-1883--Written works W; Wagner, Richard,--1813-1883--Written works; General
First sentence: "The advocates of an absolute music obviously don't know what they're talking about," Wagner insisted, somewhat petulantly, in 1857 (the open letter "On Franz Liszt's Symphonic Poems"), three years after the appearance of Eduard Hanslick's immediately influential brochure on the subject (V, 191).