TY - GEN N2 - Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner's obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. DO - 10.4159/9780674059290 DO - doi AB - Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner's obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. T1 - Wagner and the Erotic Impulse / AU - Dreyfus, Laurence, JF - HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1478929 KW - Opera KW - Sex in opera. KW - MUSIC / History & Criticism. SN - 9780674059290 TI - Wagner and the Erotic Impulse / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674059290 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674059290 ER -