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Night Waves: Wagner

Wagner

18/10/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Wagner

Anne McElvoy maps the intellectual development which informed Richard Wagner's work.

In a special edition, Anne McElvoy maps the intellectual development which informed Richard Wagner's work.

In the late 1860s Wagner, already hailed as a genius, was in the process of bringing the first two parts of the Ring Cycle to the stage; Nietzsche was an upcoming classicist and philosopher, the youngest man ever to have been made Professor in a German university. 

The friendship that developed between the two is documented in a vast collection of letters and writings, reflecting one of the most resonant cultural and philosophical scenes of 19th century Europe.

In a special edition Anne McElvoy maps the intellectual development which informed Wagner's work.

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