Richard Wagner

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Few of the great composers can claim a body of work as influential and contentiousas Richard Wagner; his life and compositions remain intertwinedwith the great upheavals of his time, and this often obscures a dispassionatecritical assessment of his output.In Richard Wagner Raymond Furness provides a clear and balanced viewof Wagner's great achievements, without neglecting the controversies inhis life and art. Using the composer's wide-ranging engagement withmythology as his starting point, Furness explores Wagner's music andextensive literary output.

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"This lucidly written, balanced, and non-hysterical book rises to the top. It is an excellent guide to the understanding of Wagner's continued relevance to the contemporary world."
--Hans Rudolf Vaget "Wagner Notes"

Author Bio

Raymond Furness is former Chair of German at St Andrew's University, Scotland. He is author or editor of many books on German literature and culture, including A Companion to Twentieth-century German Literature (1991), Zarathustra's Children (2000) and On Heligoland (2008).