WAGNERISM

Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground f or modern art and politics?an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.For bett er or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism sa turated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were mo dels of ...[Read more]