Wagnerismo

For better or for worse, Wagner is the most influential figure in the history of music. Creations as colossal as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan and Isolde, and Parsifal served in art as models of daring works in form, as examples in myth-making, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be Wagnerian: a pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, and prophets fighting for the composer's multifaceted legacy, and turns the reading experience into a constant discovery through these figures, of Nietzsche, Van Gogh, Dalí and Buñuel to Baudelaire, Virginia Woolf or Proust.