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Wagner and Schopenhauer’s philosophy.

Lean and mean book that explains Wagner’s theories behind his magnum opus. Terrific.

“Wagner embraced Feuerbach’s anticlericalism, firmly believing that church and state authority had an inherent unnaturalness and inhumanity that conditioned man away from his natural human instincts of creativity: man’s primary needs of nature and love became compelling themes of the Ring.”

I will be seeing a show in March at the Met. The tickets sold out quickly and were outrageous, every show. Putting this in the reading queue for this year.