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100 1 $aCallow, Simon,$d1949-$eauthor.
245 10$aBeing Wagner :$ba larger-than-life biography of a short man /$cby Simon Callow.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c2017.
300 $axxii, 232 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
500 $a"A Vintage Books original"--Title page verso.
500 $a"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London, in 2017"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.
505 0 $aYoung Richard -- Out in the world -- Doldrums -- Triumph -- The world in flames -- Pause for thought -- It begins -- Suspension -- Limbo -- Enter a swan -- Towards the green hill -- The long day's task is done.
520 $aRichard Wagner's music dramas have never been more popular or more divisive. His ten masterpieces, created against the backdrop of a continent in severe political and cultural upheaval, constitute an unmatched body of work. A man who spent most of his life in abject poverty, inspiring both critical derision and hysterical hero-worship, Wagner was a walking contradiction: belligerent, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, demanding, visionary, and poisonously anti-Semitic. Acclaimed biographer Simon Callow evokes the intellectual and artistic climate in which Wagner lived and takes us through his most iconic works, from his pivotal successes in The Flying Dutchman and Lohengrin, to the musical paradigm shift contained in Tristan and Isolde, to the apogee of his achievements in The Ring of the Nibelung and Parsifal, which debuted at Bayreuth shortly before his death. Being Wagner brings to life this towering figure, creator of the most sublime and most controversial body of work ever known.
600 10$aWagner, Richard,$d1813-1883.
650 0$aComposers$zGermany$vBiography.