Richard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life

by John Louis DiGaetani

This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, 200 years after his birth, re-examining his life in light of new documents and new sensibilities. Since World War II Wagner has often been wrongly associated with Adolf Hitler because Hitler liked Wagner's music and used it in Nazi propaganda. But Wagner died in 1883--fifty years before Hitler's regime. It is time to have a fresh look at Wagner's life without the Nazi associations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786445440
• ISBN13: 9780786445448
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher