This is the first book to compare these two composers and cultural
heroes, both of whom were born in 1813 and achieved huge national
and international renown in their lifetimes. Yet not only did they
never meet, but the differences between them in music, culture,
environment, significance, and legacy were profound.
Peter Conrad begins his tale in a public park in Venice, home
to a pair of statues of the composers that are positioned so as to
appear to shun each other. This provides a fitting starting point
for his argument that they represent two opposite yet equally
integral and compelling dimensions of European culture: north
versus south, cerebral versus sensual, proud solitude versus human
connection, epic mythmaking versus humane magnanimity. The book is
a richly argued tour de force that engages passionately and
profoundly with music, biography, history, politics, philosophy,
psychology, and culture in the broadest sense. As Conrad concludes,
At one time or another, if not simultaneously, we still need the
two contradictory, complementary kinds of music that Verdi and
Wagner left us. "
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