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ISBN10: 0300104227, ISBN13: 9780300104226, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. [Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]
ISBN10: 0300104227, ISBN13: 9780300104226, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Hardcover Hardcover. In this new biography of Richard Wagner, Joachim Koehler draws on social and political analysis, documentary interpretation, and psychological insights to paint a rounded picture of Wagner as both a controversial historical phenomenon and a complex human being.Koehler's reading of the letters, diaries, and other documents of the main protagonists, some of them unfamiliar even to seasoned Wagnerians, results in some breathtaking but convincing reappraisals. He examines Wagner's love affairs with Jessie Laussot, Mathilde Wesendonck, and Judith Gautier and assesses their lasting emotional effect. He re-evaluates Wagner's relationships with his mother, step-father, sister, and-most revealingly-his wife, Cosima, a relationship seen as based on fear rather than love. Koehler explores the philosophical roots of Wagner's work, which the composer himself deliberately obfuscated. And he analyzes Wagner's relationship with King Ludwig, whom Wagner is revealed to have blackmailed, and with Nietzsche, whom he tried to destroy.The traumas of his youth haunted Wagner throughout his life, as his emotional development underlay his notorious anti-semitism. Koehler's interpretation of Wagner's dreams, as recorded in Cosima's diaries, offers astonishing insights into the paranoia and insecurity of a man who was one of the leading ...
ISBN10: 0300104227, ISBN13: 9780300104226, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. [Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]
Yale University Press 10/5/2004 12: 00: 00 AM Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Yale University Press 10/5/2004 12: 00: 00 AM Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Yale University Press, Date: 2004-12-11. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2004. Yale University Press ISBN 0300104227 9780300104226 [US]
Yale University Press 10/5/2004 12: 00: 00 AM Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
ISBN10: 0300104227, ISBN13: 9780300104226, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2004]
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