The Wagner Compendium: A Guide to Wagner's Life and Music

By Barry Millington

Book Overview

Edited by one of the leading Wagner scholars of modern times, and with contributions from seventeen experts from around the world, The Wagner Compendium is the key to a complete understanding of the composer -- the most comprehensive, informative and well-organized guide to his life and times. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500282749
• ISBN13: 9780500282748
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent essays on all aspects of this complex man

This is the most up-to-date and useful "general" volume on Wagner I have read. Rather than focusing on a single aspect of Wagner, this gives excellent, short and readable essays (by a variety of modern authors) on the historical and philosophical background; Wagners' views on his contemporaries, women, and the Jews (a particularly insightful essay on this difficult issue); Wagner's own writings; and fine short analysis of all of the music, not just the operas. This book is a mini-encyclopedia (though more comprehensive and readable than the new Grove entry). Well worth finding for anyone who has more than a passing interest in Wagner.