Verdi And/Or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
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Peter Conrad

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Titel: Verdi And/Or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
Autor/en: Peter Conrad
ISBN: 050051593X
EAN: 9780500515938
Autor/en: Peter Conrad
ISBN: 050051593X
EAN: 9780500515938
Sprache: Englisch.
THAMES & HUDSON
1. November 2011 - gebunden - 384 Seiten
Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. Verdi thought of art as a comfort to mankind; it pleased Wagner to believe that the nervous intensity of his operas might drive listeners mad. Is it impossible as Peter Conrad asks in this book, the first to investigate their affinities and explain their mutual mistrust to love them both? These equally matched Titans offer us a choice between two kinds of art, two ways of life, two opposed philosophies of existence. During their lifetimes Verdi and Wagner helped to define the identity of their emerging nations; their music still dramatizes the light and dark sides of every human beings character and consciousness.
Peter Conrad taught English literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1973 to 2011. He has written more than twenty books, including How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere; Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins; At Home in Australia; and Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the Twentieth Century, all published by Thames & Hudson.
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