Richard Wagner - A Portrait

<p>Following his English language literary debut <em>Ernst Jünger - A Portrait</em> author Lennart Svensson concentrates his focus on another controversial character Richard Wagner. In <em>Richard Wagner - A Portrait</em> Svensson offers a well-rounded biography of Richard Wagner's life and work. As a long-term admirer of Wagner's music Svensson is also unafraid to look at the controversial aspects of the composer's life - including his relations with Friedrich Nietzsche and the influence his music would come to have in German Nationalist circles and in the work of the Italian poet d'Annunzio.</p><p>In addition to relating the personal history of Wagner in the biography Svensson also examines the compositions themselves such as:</p><ul> <li>The Fairies</li> <li>Rienzi</li> <li>The Flying Dutchman</li> <li>Tannhauser</li> <li>Lohengrin</li> <li>Wieland the Smith</li> <li>Tristan and Isolde</li> <li>The Master-Singers of Nuremberg</li> <li>The Ring of the Nibelung</li> <li>Parsifal</li></ul><p>Svennson's new biography on Wagner also provides an in-depth analysis of the themes that Wagner chose to work with in his compositions; forbidden love Teutonic mythology the Grail saga and tragedy.</p><p>Lennart Svensson holds a BA in Indology and his previous works include <em>Antropolis</em> and<em> Camouflage</em>. <em>Ernst Jünger - A Portrait</em> was his debut in English.</p>