BEING WAGNER THE TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
 
 
The perfect introduction to the Master.
Over a century after his death, Richard Wagner�s music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. He was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten great mature masterpieces constitute an unmatched body of work, created against a backdrop of poverty, revolution, violent controversy, critical contempt and hysterical hero-worship.
In this book, Simon Callow plunges the reader headlong into Wagner�s world, examining the intellectual and artistic climate of this composer like no other who ever lived, creator of perhaps the most sublime and most troubling body of work in the history of music.
 
About the Author
 
Simon Callow is an actor, director and writer. He has appeared on the stage in many films, including the hugely popular Four Weddings and a Funeral. Callow�s books include �Being an Actor�, �Shooting the Actor�, a highly acclaimed BIOGRAPHY of Charles Laughton, a multi-volume BIOGRAPHY of Orson Welles (of which the first two parts have been published) and �Love is Where it Falls�, an account of his friendship with the great play agent, Peggy Ramsay.
 
Product details
Publisher : William Collins (25 January 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0008105715
ISBN-13 : 978-0008105716
Item Weight : 181 g
Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.6 x 19.8 cm