Beyond Reason relates Wagnerrsquo;s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time; centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen; Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nuuml;rnberg; and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the ldquo;secretrdquo; of large-scale form in Wagnerrsquo;s music dramas and to answer those critics; most prominently Nietzsche; who condemned Wagner for his putative inability to weld small expressive gestures into larger wholes. Organized by individual opera; this is essential reading for both musicologists and Wagner experts.
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