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Article: "Dallas" auf Deutsch. (Music).(life of composer Richard Wagner)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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If the tenor of the vast abundance of books about the works of Richard Wagner is indicative of anything, it is that it is impossible to approach the man and his work with a light heart. His operas impose on any listener a profound seriousness along with a sense of awed disbelief that all of this could have been the product of a single mind (and this simple declaration concerning Wagner's operas does not even register his multifaceted activities outside of the realm of music--as critic and theoretician of the arts, politician, theater designer, and all-around maverick).
Wagner himself would surely consider this earnest critical attention richly deserved--he was ...