The Tristan chord : Wagner and philosophy / Bryan Magee.

Originally published under the title Wagner and philosophy: London : Penguin, 2000.

Includes index.

First the music -- Wagner as a young German -- Wagner the Left-wing revolutionary -- Wagner, Feuerbach and the future -- Wagner's misleading reputation -- Opera as Greek drama -- Some of The Ring's leading ideas -- Wagner's discovery of Schopenhauer -- The philosophy of Schopenhauer -- Wagner re-evaluates his values -- The turn -- Metaphysics as music -- Philosophy as opera -- Music as drama -- First the orchestra -- The crowning achievement -- Wagner and Nietzsche -- Appendix: Wagner's anti-semitism.