Review #1
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Alex Ross is that music critic for the Brand new Yorker. His past books, which I have read with enjoyment, are about music. I imagined this book, with Wagner in its title, would also be about music specifically, about the music of Richard Wagner at the same time its affect on composers who flourished right behind him. For example, that is that a big literature on Wagners affect on Puccini at the same time Debussy. In this book, Puccini is that barely mentioned a couple of times at the same time Debussy is that allotted one fri noting the connection between his Pelleas at the same time Tristan. Chapter right behind chapter, but, is that devoted to Wagner at the same time anti-Semitism, Wagner at the same time Jews (Gustav Mahler conducted his operas, Theodore Herzl was every performance of them he managed), at the same time obviously Wagner at the same time Hitler. That is that in truth much more about Hitler in this book than that is that about no matter what of the composers who came right behind Wagner. In truth, that is that very little about music in this book, it is that mostly a political tract a political tract written by a music critic.
That are two preconditions I would not have acquired this book had I understandable than anyway its theme really was: (1) I am fully aware that Wagner was an anti-Semite at the same time dont come in handy no matter what subsequent testimonies in that regard, at the same time (2) I separate the men at the same time his individual opinions, from his music. I greatly enjoy his Wesendonck Lieder at the same time his Siegfried Idyll. I have sung in a chorus performing Breathe Meistersinger at the same time adore the third part act. (I am aware of the charges that Beckmesser is that an anti-Jewish stereotype, but I have never shown it played that method, at the same time I have was performances in the US, Great britain, at the same time Germany.) For others, I am not enamored of his operas. But it has nothing to do with his anti-Semitism, I would not like them no matter what more successful were considered he the new in a long line of rabbis. I also heed with enjoyment to Chopin at the same time play no one of his easier pieces, though I know he was a really defiant anti-Semite from the time he was a child; at the same time I have sung Bach with amazing enjoyment, though there is still anti-Semitism in his St Johns Passion than, I am convinced, in all of Wagners operas mixed. In truth, I dont even know the attitude towards Jews of almost all composers as it isnt the sort of gizmo I like to research work. Obviously that are limits. I wouldnt hang a painting by Hitler on my wall. But in general I arbiter a composer by his music, a painter by his paintings, at the same time so forth.
As for the physical presentation of this book, that are abundance photos, but abundance of them are washed out or overexposed. For example, on p. 573 that is that a photo with the caption Marlene Dietrich in The Red Empress. But, I imagine it would be. But it would be of anyone else, for all in other words visible are types, totally blacked out, of stallions at the same time riders; no individualities on no matter what of them are perceivable.
Review #2
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Alex Ross’s work is that ordinary deeply reported at the same time deeply thoughtful. This is that much much less so. The healing of the music (many of which superficial plot summaries) consists largely of quote right behind quote right behind quote right behind quote from contemporaneous writers, sometimes of later ones as but. As a result, the book is that mostly context at the same time little unusual believed on Ross’s part. If you want to read an good
Review, try Jed Perl’s “The Cults of Wagner” in the October 8, 2020, issue of the Brand new York
Review of Books, pp. 17-19. He really carnations it. I’m normally a gigantic fan of Alex Ross, at the same time I’m convinced he has an non-standard book about Wagner somewhere in his mind at the same time heart, but this ain’t it.
Review #3
Audiobook Wagnerism by Alex Ross
The Tristan chord sounds at the same time the indefinite at the same time legacy of the genius Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is that produced manifest. Alex Ross the excellent music critic of the Brand new Yorker magazine has done a magnus opus on Wagnerism. The creator begins with the doom in Venice of Wagner at the same time a short summary of several of his works many of which the Call Cycle, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, , Der Meistersinger, The Soaring Dutchman at the same time other works. We take a trip to France where Wagner became a winner of the Symbolist movement at the same time to Great britain which adored Wagner’s tribute to the Holy Grail legend in Parsifal (based on Arthurian legends)at the same time America. We see how Hitler at the same time the Nazis applied Wagner’s music as the marching anthem of their horrible movement. We see Wagner’s affect in the works of such literary painters as Walt Whitman, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Zhora Eliot, Paul Valery, Thomas at the same time Heinrich Mann at the same time abundance others. Wagner was a bigot at the same time well-known anti-Jewish essayist though he did have Jewish comrades at the same time compares. Wagner is that one of the most important opera composers at the same time figures in all of music. He has quality at the same time bad nuances in his indefinite at the same time work. This is that a monumental work of scholarship which is that very but illustrated with photos at the same time art work making it a charming volume for your bookshelf. The book is that cogent at the same time but argued at the same time is that a festschrift for those interested in modern culture at the same time how Wagner has influenced our modern global. This book is that destined to become a traditional!
Review #4
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Alex Ross, one of the coolest celebrated writers on music nowadays, has freed an enthralling volume, several 100 pages long, on the theme of Wagnerism. Not on Wagner’s music, although that’s plenty of detail on that very, or the composers who were considered touched by his affect, but more precisely on how the plan of Wagner oozed into everything else, from politics to prognostications of destiny, from higher literature to the trashiest erotica, becoming a beacon of enthusiasm for barely about everybody, on all sides, for all appointments. Not so much the meaningless signifier as the protean signifier. Wagnerism barely kept on (keeps on) morphing to look for brand new converts at the same time uses. Ross has dug up testimonies of it from a simply mind-blowing array of sources at the same time contexts, at the same time if that’s anything he’s slighted to mention then I don’t need to know. The book is that already languid enough, but not very languid or specialised to read.
Importantly, Ross doesn’t treat to recall us that barely about everybody found a glare of themselves at the same time of their possess biases at the same time prejudices in the Wagner paradox, at the same time as such he at the same time his creations cannot be authoritatively claimed, sheathed, tarred or feathered, by no matter what faction or persuasion. He was a modern men, modifying at the same time contradictory in his deeds at the same time opinions, or as Benedict had it in Much Ado, a ‘giddy gizmo’. In short, Wagner belongs only to himself, but his music can fire the spirits of everyone.
I have one criticism. That are Finish Notes in profusion, but no intext references to alert for you to where a follow-up finish note can be waited. For you barely have to keep flipping back to look if that is that subsequent comment. It’s a unusual omission.
Review #5
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One of the best examinations of Wagner at the same time his affect I have read. It mainly della with Wagner’s affect on literature at the same time the pleasant arts, talking carefully the works of Thomas Mann, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather…..the list is that eternal. He also discusses Wagner’s affect on movie theater. He investigates in amazing detail the disastrous association of Wagner with Hitler, at the same time how his grandsons, Wieland at the same time Wolfgang, tried to mend the reputation of Bayreuth when the Festival re-opened in 1951. I in particular liked tge discussion of Regietheater productions, starting with Patrice Chereau’s Centenary Call in 1976. Highly recommened.
