Wagner and the French Muse: Wagnerian Influences on French Musical and Literary Culture, 1870-1945

by PaulDuQuenoy (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $86.32

  Richard Wagner's musical themes, dramatic structures and philosophical tropes recurred in the works of almost every major French composer before World war One. This research monograph studies and reinterprets the works and ideas of Wagner which have had such a profound influence on the artistic and intellectual life of France.