Tanner michael 1935 (2 Ergebnisse)

small PAPERBACK, very good. TANNER, MICHAEL. Schopenhauer (TEXT IN ENGLISH). New York: Routledge, 1999, 1st printing number line ending in 1, 54pp., . Series: The great philosophers, 24 First published by Orion in 1997. - Schopenhauer hymned the miseries of human existence with a joylessness that was little short of lyrical. Yet he thrilled to the beauties of music and art. Tanner teases out the difficulties and unpicks the paradoxes to reveal the exhilarating coherence beneath. 9780415923972 ISBN 0415923972.…

very good dust-jacket, very good small brown cloth. TANNER, MICHAEL. Wagner. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996, 1st printing number line ending in 1, x, 236pp., . Printed in Great Britain. - Whilst no one would dispute Wagner's ranking amongst the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than those of any other composer. A racist, womaniser, megalomaniac and anti-Semite, Wagner's personal 'defects' have provoked, and continue to provoke, intense hostility which has translated into a mistrust and abhorrence of his music. In this emphatic, lucid book Michael Tanner discusses why people feel so passionately for or against Wagner, in a way that they don't about other artists with equally lamentable personal traits. He lays out the various arguments made by Wagner's detractors and admirers, and challenges most of them. Tanner's fascination for the relationship between music, text and plot generates an illuminating discussion of the operas, in which he persuades us to see many of Wagner's best-known works afresh - The Ring, Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal. He refrains from lengthy and detailed musical examination, giving instead, passionate and unconventional analyses which are accessible to all lovers of music, be they listeners or performers. - CONTENTS: The Case of Wagner -- Prejudices and Banalities -- Getting under Way -- Domesticating Wagner -- Grandeur and Suffering in Wagner:Some Case Studies -- Lobengrin and its Prelude -- Wagner Ponders -- What is the Ring about? -- Men and Gods -- The Fearless Hero -- The Passion of Passion -- Art, Tradition and Authority -- The Ring Resumed -- Redemption to the Redeemer -- Postlude: Wagner and Culture. 9780691011622 ISBN 0691011621.…