Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived

By Simon Callow

Book Overview

Richard Wagner's music dramas have never been more popular. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525436189
• ISBN13: 9780525436188
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"