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The most controversial musical figure of the 19th century, Wagner was a great literary, philosophical, and political activist whose contribution to the development of German Romanticism was unrivalled by any of his contemporaries. His life and works may be said to crown the musical achievements of German Romanticism but they arouse passions like no other composer's. His works are hated as much as they are worshipped, but no one denies their greatness. This biography of Richard Wagner is one in a new series of composer biographies, derived and adapted from the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. These newly written biographies bring the best of the book-length pieces in The New Grove to a wider audience. Each title provides fresh new insights into the life and works of a major composer, derived from the most recent scholarship. In addition to a detailed and informative view of the subject's life and works, written by an expert in the field, each book includes comprehensive, tabular work-lists and a fully revised and updated bibliography.

Richard Wagner is one of the influential and also the polarizing composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their experimentation, paving the way for modernism. This title offers an overview of Wagners life, work and times.

Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him--including his autobiography--is misleading. Barry Millington draws on the best previous scholarship and his own original research to set the record straight. The first part of this book is devoted to biography; the second, to a detailed study of the operas. Millington offers a historical review of the critical interpretation of each opera, including a discussion of recent methods of formal analysis. In this revised edition, two chapters, those on Tannhauser and Die Meistersinger, include significant new material. The bibliography has also been updated.

Richard Wagner (1813-83) on eräs kiistanalaisimpia säveltäjiä, ja paljon, mitä hänestä on kirjoitettu, on harhaanjohtavaa. Barry Millington oikaisee vääriä käsityksiä tukeutumalla sekä omiin että muiden Wagner-tutkijoiden tuoreisiin tutkimustuloksiin ja tuo tässä kirjassa uusimman tiedon lukijan ulottuville. Suomenkielisessä Wagner-kirjallisuudessa Millingtonin teos on ensimmäinen, joka käsittelee sekä Wagnerin elämää että hänen oopperoitaan, musiikkidraamojaan ja muita sävellyksiään yksityiskohtaisesti ja johdonmukaisesti. Wagnerin vetovoimainen ja itsekeskeinen persoonallisuus sekä hänen taidetta, vallankumousta ja "rotupuhtautta" koskevat teoriansa tuodaan kirjassa esiin sosiaalista ja kulttuurista taustaa vastaan. Kuvitetun kirjan on suomentanut Jopi Harri.