John Deathridge a lecturer in music at Cambridge and a fellow of King’s College, is the author of Wagner’s ‘Rienzi’ and a co-author of the New Grove Wagner.
‘The bewildering variety of interests and standards in Wagner scholarship (or what passes for it) is congenitally resistant to study.’ Thus John Deathridge, the leading Wagner scholar...
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