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  Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries (Hardback) By (author) Peter Conrad

  

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  Short Description for Verdi and/or WagnerGiuseppe 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. This book investigates their affinities and explains their mutual mistrust.
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  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Published: 07 November 2011
  • Format: Hardback 384 pages
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  • Categories: Music Reviews & Criticism | Opera | Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups
  • ISBN 13: 9780500515938 ISBN 10: 050051593X
  • Sales rank: 68,982

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Full description for Verdi and/or Wagner

• 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.