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Wagner's Parsifal - The Music of Redemption (Paperback)
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Wagner's Parsifal - The Music of Redemption (Paperback)
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A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last
opera, by one of Britain's leading intellectuals Wagner's last
music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing
through compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of
the Grail from the sins that have polluted it. The Grail is a
symbol of purity in a world of lust and power, but although
Parsifal is the culmination of Wagner's life-long obsession with
the religious frame of mind, the redemption sought by his
characters is far from the Christian archetype. For Wagner,
redemption occurs inthis life, when compassion prevails over
enslavement, and purity replaces spiritual pollution. His music
here ties together suffering and contrition, sin and forgiveness,
downfall and redemption in an inextricable knot, healing the
fractures and uniting the warring elements in human life in a way
that is clear, convincing and uncanny. More than any other of his
works, Parsifal expresses in music a depth of feeling for which we
do not have words. This short but penetrating book, by a writer who
was uniquely both a leading philosopher and musicologist, shows us
how Wagner achieves this profound work, explaining the story, its
musical ideas, and their coming together into a sublime whole which
gives us the musical equivalent of forgiveness and closure. There
are few writers who can so enhance our understanding of one of the
greatest works in western music.
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