Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived by Callow, Simon

Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525436188)

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Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived by Callow, Simon

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

$16.95
Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived by Callow, Simon

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

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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Simon Callow, the celebrated author of Orson Welles, delivers a dazzling, swift, and accessible biography of the musical titan Richard Wagner and his profoundly problematic legacy--a fresh take for seasoned acolytes and the perfect introduction for new fans.

Richard 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.

Author: Simon Callow
ISBN-10: 0525436189
ISBN-13: 9780525436188
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2018
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2017
Library Journal 01/01/2018
Booklist 01/01/2018 pg. 29
By Simon Callow
By Simon Callow
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Simon Callow made his stage debut in 1973 and came to prominence in a critically acclaimed performance as Mozart in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus at the Royal National Theatre in 1979. He is well known for a series of one-man shows that have toured internationally and featured subjects such as Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Jesus, and Richard Wagner. Among his many film roles is the much-loved character Gareth in the hit film Four Weddings and a Funeral. Callow has simultaneously pursued careers as a director in theater and opera and is an author of several books, including Being an Actor, Love Is Where It Falls, and a biography of Charles Laughton.

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