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Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner´s Tristan and Isolde
Roger Scruton
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Description for Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner´s Tristan and Isolde
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 89 music ex. BIC Classification: AV; AVGC9; HP; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, they have denounced the drama as a "mere trifle"--a rendering of Wagner's forbidden love for Matilde Wesendonck, the wife of a banker who supported him during his exile in Switzerland. Death-Devoted Heart explodes this established interpretation, proving the drama to be more than just a sublimation of the composer's love ... Read more
A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, they have denounced the drama as a "mere trifle"--a rendering of Wagner's forbidden love for Matilde Wesendonck, the wife of a banker who supported him during his exile in Switzerland. Death-Devoted Heart explodes this established interpretation, proving the drama to be more than just a sublimation of the composer's love ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199928088
SKU
V9780199928088
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About Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton is a well-known writer, philosopher, journalist, and a former professor of philosophy. He has written more than thirty books on aesthetics, culture, and politics.
Reviews for Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner´s Tristan and Isolde
superb book....can still teach much even to those who think they long ago grasped the secret of this masterpiece.
Simon Heffer, Literary Review
(Roger Scruton's book is a deep and daunting) 'study of the most important single composition in Western music ... Scruton's examination is highly original and delves into aspects which have seldom been explored so rigorously' ... Read more
Simon Heffer, Literary Review
(Roger Scruton's book is a deep and daunting) 'study of the most important single composition in Western music ... Scruton's examination is highly original and delves into aspects which have seldom been explored so rigorously' ... Read more