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by Theodor W. Adorno (Author), Rodney Livingstone (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Verso Books; 2nd Revised edition edition (27 Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844675009
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844675005
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"An astonishing book, comparable only to the later Wagner tracts by Nietzsche ... essential reading for anyone seriously involved with the composer, and now we can read it thanks to a superior translation by Rodney Livingstone." -- New York Review of Books


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Richard Wagner's works are among the most controversial in the history of European music -- because of their powerful aesthetic qualities and, in wider political terms, because of their eventual assimilation into the official culture of the Third Reich. This concise synoptic account by the most brilliant exponent of Frankfurt School Marxism subtly interweaves these artistic and ideological qualities. It provides deft musicological analyses of Wagner's scores and of his compositional techniques, orchestration and staging methods, quoting copiously from the music dramas themselves. At the same time it offers incisive reflections on Wagner's social character and the ideological impulses of his artistic activity.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Important study on Wagner's works, 7 Jan 2006
This is an important study, superbly well served by its translator. It's a pity, though, that for this new edition the publisher has chosen as a cover illustration a portrait that is NOT Wagner.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Theodor fails to find Wagner, 17 Nov 2008
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From the picture on the cover - which is neither of Wagner, nor of Adorno - to the index, which proudly proclaims that "the name of Richard Wagner has been omitted" this seems to be a book in which Wagner is sought but is deliberately never found. Instead we have to trudge through endless turgid Marxist-derived critique of Wagner and his works. There are one or two interesting insights here (I liked the observation that, despite Wagner's dislike of cruelty to animals, Brunnhilde's horse Grane still has to be urged into the fire - and has to like it!), but it's a curate's egg of a book. The most controversial claim is that the characters of Mime and Beckmesser are anti-semitic stereotypes, however there is no evidence provided to support this thesis: presumably proof is for the bourgeoisie. There are many typos, particularly toward the end, as if the proofreader was too bored by the material to check it properly. No, if you want a short book with real insights into Wagner, then check out Bryan Magee's "Aspects of Wagner".
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding study of Wagner, 13 Jan 2006
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This is one of the major studies of Wagner, superbly well served by its translator. It's a pity, though, that the publisher has chosen as a cover image of Wagner a photograph that was shown to be inauthentic over thirty years ago.
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