Musical Times, July 1st, 2005
Ecce homo Richard Wagner: the last of the titans Joachim Köhler Translated by Stewart Spencer Yale University Press (New Haven & London, 2004); xiv, 688pp; £29.95. ISBN 0 300 10422 7.
THIS is A REMARKABLE BOOK in a notoriously clogged field. If just one book on Wagner, let it be Joachim Köhler's Last of the titans, despite the bathetic title. Graver faults can also be condoned. Köhler is not comprehensive with facts, and his documentation can be wonky. He subjects everything in his subject's life and works to an old-fashioned psychoanalytical account that might be criticised as excess...
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