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"'The vastest piece of music ever conceived by the mind of man' (as Father Owen Lee says in his introduction to Wagner's Ring) is Richard Wagner's majestic The Ring of the Nibelung. Like the four operas of the Ring itself--Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung--Father Lee's commentary draws on history, mythology, psychology, and philosophy, as well as a profound love and understanding of music. His Wagner's Ring--which includes synopses of the operas and a selected discography--is the perfect companion to the composer's 'inexhaustible myth in music.' Father Lee's volume takes its subtitle from C. S. Lewis, who remembered when he first encountered the Ring because it seemed at that moment 'the sky had turned round.' When Father Lee gave his commentaries on the Ring during the intermissions of the Texaco-sponsored broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera in 1989, the response was overwhelming. Many listeners who had every reason not to like Wagner--or what Wagner has come to mean--found nonetheless that there was something transcendent in his music that they found nowhere else. From the theft of gold from the depths of the Rhine (and birth of man's consciousness) in

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Author

Lee, M. Owen, 1930-

Publisher

New York: Summit Books

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671707736

Category

music

Subjects

Music, Arts

Rating

4.7 / 5 (81 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14