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Being Wagner audiobook
- By: Simon Callow
- Narrator: Simon Callow
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians
- Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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Being Wagner Audiobook Summary
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.
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Being Wagner Full Details
| Narrator | Simon Callow |
| Length | 6 hours 37 minutes |
| Author | Simon Callow |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780525632436 |
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The publisher of the Being Wagner is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: historical, true story, history lovers gifts, historical books, world history, autobiographies, music books, opera books, music history, Simon Callow, musicians, music biographies, composers, Orson Welles, German, history books, wagner ring, wagner, richard wagner biography, richard wagner books, richard wagner, biographies of famous people, biography, ring cycle, music, opera, classical music, drama, history, biographies, european history, the master, tristan and isolde, germany, german history, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Siegfried, Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians, History, Europe, Germany, Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians
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The publisher of the Being Wagner is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780525632436.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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