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The Spirits of ‘Parsifal’: Joachim Köhler investigates a new study probing the dark side of Wagner

The Spirits of ‘Parsifal’: Joachim Köhler investigates a new study probing the dark side of Wagner

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Review of Stephan Mösch, Weihe, Werkstatt, Wirklichkeit: ‘Parsifal’ in Bayreuth 1882–1933 (Bärenreiter/Metzler Verlag, 2009). 

March 2010, Volume 4, Number 1, 82–5.

Literature dealing with Wagner can be roughly divided into three categories. One identifies Wagner with his marble bust in Wahnfried’s lobby; the second throws rotten tomatoes at this bust; and the third sees Wagner as an ingenious human being with a character of Shakespearean dimensions, best described not judged.

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