The Tristan chord : Wagner and philosophy / Bryan Magee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xi, 397 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0805067884 (hc.)
  • 9780805067880 (hc.)
Uniform titles:
  • Wagner and philosophy
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.1/092 21
LOC classification:
  • ML410.W19 M14 2001
Other classification:
  • 24.50
  • 803000 Wagner, Richard*by*of
  • LP 66484
Online resources:
Contents:
First the music -- Wagner as a young German -- Wagner the Left-wing revolutionary -- Wagner, Feuerbach and the future -- Wagner's misleading reputation -- Opera as Greek drama -- Some of The Ring's leading ideas -- Wagner's discovery of Schopenhauer -- The philosophy of Schopenhauer -- Wagner re-evaluates his values -- The turn -- Metaphysics as music -- Philosophy as opera -- Music as drama -- First the orchestra -- The crowning achievement -- Wagner and Nietzsche -- Appendix: Wagner's anti-semitism.
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Originally published: Wagner and philosophy. London : Penguin Press, 2000.

Includes index.

First the music -- Wagner as a young German -- Wagner the Left-wing revolutionary -- Wagner, Feuerbach and the future -- Wagner's misleading reputation -- Opera as Greek drama -- Some of The Ring's leading ideas -- Wagner's discovery of Schopenhauer -- The philosophy of Schopenhauer -- Wagner re-evaluates his values -- The turn -- Metaphysics as music -- Philosophy as opera -- Music as drama -- First the orchestra -- The crowning achievement -- Wagner and Nietzsche -- Appendix: Wagner's anti-semitism.

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