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Wagner Nights : an American History

This award-winning history of Wagnerism in the United States shows that the American passion was unique. Wagner himself predicted that the New World would prove especially receptive to his operas and ideas and the enigmatic conductor Anton Seidl became his emissary.
Print Book, English, 1998
Univ of California Pr, Berkeley, 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
389 pages
9780520213753, 0520213750
890354082