Wagner's Das Rheingold

by Warren Darcy

Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold is a milestone in the composer's output and in the history of music in general. It marked Wagner's return to operatic composition after a hiatus of five years, and signified his definitive break with earlier operatic conventions. It also represents a reconsideration of the whole question of dramatic-musical form, and the role of tonality in articulating this form. Warren Darcy traces here the genesis of Das Rheingold...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198166036
• ISBN13: 9780198166030
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"