Wagner and the Romantic Hero

by Simon Williams

Book Overview

Few major artists have aroused the ire and adulation of successive generations as persistently as Richard Wagner. He was the centre of controversy during his lifetime and yet, when he died, he was the most idolized man in Germany. The situation has not changed much since then. Simon Williams explores the reasons for this adulation and antipathy by examining an aspect that may be a fundamental cause for this radical division in the reception of Wagner's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521820081
• ISBN13: 9780521820080
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.4"