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The sorcerer of Bayreuth : Richard Wagner, his work, and his world
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- Creator
- Barry Millington
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199933761, 0199933766
- OCLC
- ocn793726592
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-313), discography (pages 314-315), and index.
- Father of the man : paternity and childhood -- Learning the craft : youthful apprenticeship -- Earning his keep : first professional appointments -- Under the yoke : Kapellmeister in Dresden -- The eternal wanderer : Der fliegende Holländer -- Desperately seeking Venus : Tannhäuser -- Swansong to traditional opera : Lohengrin -- Revolutionary road : uprising in Dresden -- The Zurich years : Wagner's exile in Switzerland -- The rise and fall of Valhalla : Der Ring des Nibelungen -- 'Most excellent friend' : Franz Liszt -- Muses, mistresses and mother-figures : Wagner's women -- The behemoth of Bayreuth : Wagner's personality -- Always short : Wagner and money -- In the pink : the role of silks and satins in Wagner's life -- 'My adored and angelic friend' : Ludwig II -- Fatal attraction : Tristan und Isolde -- 'Art is what matters here' : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -- Grit in the oyster : the role of anti-Semitism in Wagner's life and work -- Creative spark : sources of inspiration in Wagner's work -- The silent sufferer : Cosima Wagner -- Tribschen idyll : the Lucerne years -- A home for the gods : the Bayreuth project -- Wagner's last card : Parsifal -- Death in Venice : the events of Wagner's last days -- Perfect and imperfect Wagnerites : the spread of the Wagner cult -- Panning for gold : Wagner and cinema -- Swastikas over Bayreuth : Wagner and the Third Reich -- Regime change : the grandsons usher in the era of new Bayreuth -- Renewing the legacy : Bayreuth today and in the future