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Jan 6, 2009 · An Economist Best Book of 2007, Jonathan Carr’s The Wagner Clan proves, with the sweeping scope of a Wagnerian opera, that the history of Europe and that of the infamous composer’s family are inextricably intertwined.
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Jan 19, 2009 · Carr’s The Wagner Clan. . . is, remarkably, the first objective history of the family. He treats the endemic blend of ancestor worship, anti-Semitism, self-interest and mutual loathing with the fastidiousness of an English butler at an orgy. . . .
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After the war’s devastation, the festival was dark for a decade until Wagner’s offspring with characteristic ambition and cunning revived it. The Wagner Clan is a riveting chronicle of the ascent, decline, and rehabilitation of the German nation and its most infamous family.
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A family saga that mirrors Germany's rise, fall, and resurrection. Richard Wagner was many things--composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite--and his descendants have carried on his complex legacy.
The Wagner Clan is a riveting chronicle of the ascent, decline, and rehabilitation of the German nation and its most infamous family.
Jan 19, 2009 · Stretching from the revolutions of 1848 to the darkest days of World War II and through to the present incarnation of Wagner’s Bayreuth Festival, The Wagner Clan is “a smart, insightful look into...
In Jonathan Carr's The Wagner Clan, family drama and political controversy collide with musical legacy - The Wagner Clan in the first thorough and balanced history of Germany's most famous family.
- Jonathan Carr
