Aspects of Wagner

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Aspects of Wagner is written by Bryan Magee and published by OUP Oxford. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0192840126 (ISBN 10) and 9780192840127 (ISBN 13).

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'.