Wagnerism

By Alex Ross,

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Book description

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics―an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.

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1 author picked Wagnerism as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

All the myths about Wagner, half remembered, half picked up from pop culture and black and white images of Hitler or women with horned helmets - overturned! Amazing work of historical archeology which uncovers Wagner at the very bedrocks of our modern culture.

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