The man whom W.H. Auden called `perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived' has inspired extremes of adulation and loathing. In this penetrating analysis, Bryan Magee outlines the range and depth of Wagner's achievement, and shows how his sensational and erotic music expresses the repressed and highly charged contents of the psyche. He also examines Wagner's detailed stage directions, and the prose works in which he formulated his ideas, and sheds interesting new
light on his anti-semitism.
This new edition has been extensively revised. It includes a fresh chapter, `Wagner as Music'.
- ISBN10 0192840126
- ISBN13 9780192840127
- Publish Date 1 September 1988 (first published 30 November 1972)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English