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Judith Cabaud - Mathilde Wesendonck, Isolde's Dream - 9781574674910 - V9781574674910
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Mathilde Wesendonck, Isolde's Dream

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Description for Mathilde Wesendonck, Isolde's Dream Hardcover. The untold tale of Mathilde Wesendonck, the muse of many of Richard Wagner s greatest works Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Truly great compositions spring, like Athena from Zeus' skull, at the juncture of genius and passion. In Mathilde Wesendonck: Isolde's Dream, author Judith Cabaud calls on a host of heretofore undiscovered resources to tell the story of Mathilde Wesendonck, muse and paramour to Richard Wagner and, later, Johannes Brahms. Alma Mahler, eat your heart out. In or about August 1857, Richard Wagner's character changed. He abandoned Der Ring des Nibelungen, the Gesamtkunstwerk he'd begun work on nearly a decade earlier, tore through a short set of songs now known as the Wesendonck Lieder, and dove headlong into ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Amadeus Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9781574674910
SKU
V9781574674910
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Ref
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About Judith Cabaud
JUDITH CABAUD (Andelaroche, France) was born in Brooklyn, New York, received her BA (Phi Beta Kappa) from New York University. Then, after studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and in Clermont-Ferrand where she obtained her licence es lettres, she settled in France. For many years, she worked as a teacher, a writer, a journalist, and a music critic at the ... Read more

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