Wagner Nights: An American History

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• "...a richly informative and considered study of cultural history, the reverse of a trendy attempt to turn the conventional wisdom upside down."
• The life and works of composer Richard Wagner dominated American music-making at the close of the 19th century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but--as Joseph Horowitz shows in this award-winning first history of Wagnerism in the United States--the American passion was unique. 19 illustrations.