The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde by Eric Chafe

The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

Eric Chafe

333 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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During the years preceding the composition of Tristan and Isolde, Wagner's aesthetics underwent a momentous turnaround, principally as a result of his discovery of Schopenhauer. Many of Schopenhauer's ideas, especially those regarding music's meta...

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