TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dreyfus,Laurence
TI  - Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
SN  - 9780674059290
U1  - 782.1092 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Opera
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Sex in opera
KW  - MUSIC / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; 1. Echoes --; 2. Intentions --; 3. Harmonies --; 4. Pathologies --; 5. Homoerotics --; Epilogue --; Appendix: Musical Examples --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner’s obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674059290?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674059290
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674059290/original
ER  -