Research Catalog

Title

Wagner and philosophy / Bryan Magee.

Author

Magee, Bryan

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2001.

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Details

Description

xi, 397 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 20 cm.

Summary

The author places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age. He reveals the links between Wagner and the philosophers of his day, from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach and Schopenhauer.

Subject

• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 > Criticism and interpretation
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 > Philosophy
• 1800-1899
• Operas > 19th century
• Antisemitism > Germany
• Composers > Germany
• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Opera > 19th century
• Philosophy, German > 19th century

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally published: London: Penguin Press, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

First the music -- Wagner as a young German -- Wagner the left-wing revolutionary -- Wagner, Feuerbach and the future -- Wagner's misleading reputation -- Opera as Greek drama -- Some of The ring's leading ideas -- Wagner's discovery of Schopenhauer -- The philosophy of Schopenhauer -- Wagner re-evaluates his values -- The turn -- Metaphysics as music -- Philosophy as opera -- Music as drama -- First the orchestra -- The crowning achievement -- Wagner and Nietzsche -- Wagner's anti-semitism.

ISBN

0140295194

OCLC

• 47063406
• SCSB-10746386

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library