Verdi and/or Wagner (Hardback) /anglais - Couverture rigide

Conrad, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 050051593X ISBN 13 : 9780500515938

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. Verdi thought of art as a comfort to mankind; it pleased Wagner to believe that the nervous intensity of his operas might drive listeners mad. Is it impossible as Peter Conrad asks in this book, the first to investigate their affinities and explain their mutual mistrust to love them both? These equally matched Titans offer us a choice between two kinds of art, two ways of life, two opposed philosophies of existence. During their lifetimes Verdi and Wagner helped to define the identity of their emerging nations; their music still dramatizes the light and dark sides of every human beings character and consciousness.

Revue de presse :

Erudite and fascinating --The Daily Telegraph

A valuable work, not just because of Conrad's musical insights, but because of his grasp of historical context ... His accounts of the contemporary - and historical - stagings of the two composers' works are exemplary, and useful; and the book itself is never dull --The Guardian

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 050051593X
• ISBN 13: 9780500515938
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384