Richard Wagner
19th-century German composer, conductor and theatre director best known for his music dramas and operas (including the Ring Cycle, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger). Influential in the development of leitmotif technique and Gesamtkunstwerk; also known for his polemical and antisemitic writings.
Books
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1. Tristan Et Isolde
In a medieval court, a knight charged with escorting a princess to her arranged marriage becomes bound to her by an irresistible, illicit passion after they inadvertently drink a potent potion; their consuming love pits desire against duty and honor, spawns betrayal and political strife, and drives both toward exile, suffering, and ultimately a tragic, transcendent conclusion in which love and death become indistinguishable.
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