Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the modern Culture Industry.
- ISBN10 0860917967
- ISBN13 9780860917960
- Publish Date 17 July 1985 (first published 1 January 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 June 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English