Wagner for the Advanced

Look out Wagner fans and foes! A cheeky, ironic, brilliant contribution to Richard Wagner’s centenary in 2008.

Of a man who used to hate Wagner’s music, but was ultimately forced to concede that „Tristan” is one of music’s greatest masterpieces: the highly gifted raconteur puts forward a not entirely frivolous analysis of Wagner’s musical dramas. In the process he satirises the excesses of the Wagner household as well as some more recent productions and queries why productions of „Die Meistersinger”, in particular, are invariably distorted by directors’ overly colourful flights of fancy. – A book for Wagnerians and those who hitherto avoided him like the plague.


Herbert Rosendorfer brought him public acclaim with over 2 million , born in Gries Bolzano in 1934, spent a year at the Academy of Fine Arts before going on to study law. Initially he worked as an attorney and magistrate in Munich, before being appointed as a judge in the Regional Appeal Court in Naumburg, Hessia, where he remained until 1997. In 1990 he was appointed Professor of Bavarian Literary History, and, in the same year, he was awarded the Jean-Paul Sartre Prize. In 2005 he was awarded the Literature Prize of the City of Munich. His „Letters Back to Ancient China”copies sold to date.


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