TY - GEN 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. AU - Dreyfus, Laurence, DO - 10.4159/9780674059290 DO - doi ID - 1478929 JF - HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 KW - Opera KW - Sex in opera. KW - MUSIC / History & Criticism. LA - eng LA - In English. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674059290 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. SN - 9780674059290 T1 - Wagner and the Erotic Impulse / TI - Wagner and the Erotic Impulse / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674059290 ER -