Richard Wagner by Martin Geck
A concise, well-researched biography that traces the composer's life from his youthful ambitions and early successes through exile, the revolutionary episode in Dresden, and his later triumphs under royal patronage, situating his personal contradictions—temperament, political entanglements and virulent antisemitism—against the development of his revolutionary musical language. The book explains how his ideas about music drama, leitmotif and the Gesamtkunstwerk reshaped opera, follows the composition of landmark works such as Tristan, the Ring cycle and Parsifal, and examines the creation of a theatrical legacy at Bayreuth, while assessing his enduring influence and the controversies that have complicated his reception in subsequent cultural and political history.
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