The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas by Barry Millington

The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas by Barry Millington

The most controversial musical figure of the 19th century, Wagner was a great literary, philosophical, and political activist whose contribution to the development of German Romanticism was unrivalled by any of his contemporaries. His life and works may be said to crown the musical achievements of German Romanticism but they arouse passions like no other composer's. His works are hated as much as they are worshipped, but no one denies their greatness. This biography of Richard Wagner is one in a new series of composer biographies, derived and adapted from the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. These newly written biographies bring the best of the book-length pieces in The New Grove to a wider audience. Each title provides fresh new insights into the life and works of a major composer, derived from the most recent scholarship. In addition to a detailed and informative view of the subject's life and works, written by an expert in the field, each book includes comprehensive, tabular work-lists and a fully revised and updated bibliography.

It takes Barry Millington fewer than 200 pages to say more that is pertinent, up-to-date, and (praise be) actually about Wagner's music than any number of lengthier tomes about this much-chronicled composer* Mike Ashman, Gramophone *

Barry Millington is Chief Music Critic for the London Evening Standard and the author/editor of seven books on Wagner, including Wagner and The Wagner Compendium.

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ISBN 13	9780195305883
ISBN 10	0195305884
Title	The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas
Author	Barry Millington
Series	7ew Grove Operas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2006-10-12
Number of pages	208
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