After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono

by Mark Berry

his book offers histories of music drama after Richard Wagner, concentrating upon works which fall not only chronologically but also in some sense harmoniously and antagonistically within a Wagnerian tradition. Beginning with Parsifal, in which Wagner himself reckoned with, extended, and questioned his achievements in previous works, this book proceeds to treat with the sthetics, politics, and works of five subsequent composers: Arnold Schoenberg,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843839687
• ISBN13: 9781843839682
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"