The Consolations of History: Themes of Progress and Potential in Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung

ISBN-13: 9780367243210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 158 str.

Alexander H. Shapiro

Opis

Alexander H. Shapiro provides a fresh look at the influences on Wagner's Götterdämmerung, and critically re-evaluates the composer’s intellectual worldview as revealed in his own prose works, letters and diary entries. The book challenges conventional views that continue to impede a clear understanding of this work’s meaning.

O autorze

Alexander H. Shapiro is a practicing lawyer and independent scholar based in New York, U.S. His published works include “McEwan and Forster: The Perfect Wagnerites” in The Wagner Journal (2011), and “‘Drama of an Infinitely Superior Nature’: Handel’s Early English Oratorios and the Religious Sublime” in Music & Letters (1993).