Life of Wagner

by Louis Nohl and George Putnam Upton Ludwig Nohl

Book Overview

The masters of music, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, advanced this art beyond the limits of their predecessors by identifying themselves more closely with the development of active life itself. By their creative power they invested the life of the nation and mankind with profounder thought, culminating at last in the most sublime of our possessions--religion. No artist has followed in their course with more determined energy than Richard Wagner, as well he might, for with equal intellectual capacity, the foundation of his education was broader and deeper than that of the classic masters;

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151515288X
• ISBN13: 9781515152880
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"