Download or read book The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas written by Barry Millington and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most controversial musical figure of the 19th century, Richard Wagner was a great literary, philosophical, and political activist. Drawing from contemporary scholarship, this biography provides different insights into his life and works.