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Beyond Reason: Wagner Contra Nietzsche

Beyond Reason: Wagner Contra Nietzsche

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral MusicOpera

ISBN10: 0520292758
ISBN13: 9780520292758
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Nov 15 2016
Pages: 552
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Beyond Reason relates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the secret of large-scale form in Wagner's music dramas and to answer those critics, most prominently Nietzsche, who condemned Wagner for his putative inability to weld small expressive gestures into larger wholes. Organized by individual opera, this is essential reading for both musicologists and Wagner experts.

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