Wagner and the Erotic Impulse  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. Daring to represent erotic stimulation, passionate ecstasy, and the torment of sexual desire, Wagner sparked intense reactions from figures like Baudelaire, Clara Schumann, […]

Categories: Arte, Erotica, Música • Tags: 2012, Criticism, Eros, erotic, erotica, Germany, Harvard, Harvard University Press, Música, music, Opera, Sex, Wagner