Publisher's Synopsis
The polymath Prof. HERMANN BECKH, Dr. jur. et phil. (1875-1937) is being rediscovered. This linguist, Orientalist and Christian priest - an active music-lover, who also wrote music - penned pioneer works on our musical system still respected by musicians and musicologists. Beckh also champions the music drama of Richard WAGNER. In The 'Parsifal' = Christ = Experience in Wagner's music drama - referring to Wagner's own letters and a most remarkable letter of Nietzsche - Beckh faces the deepest inner question of our time, identified by Wagner. In the poetic libretto and remarkable music of his final creation, Wagner presents the Grail legend and its imagery. The psychological drama and its ultimate solution is accessible to all those who reflect on their experience. Beckh's original insights bring a new and powerful light to the search for meaning of our age, for a knowledge of the heart. The reader meets the real Wagner, acknowledged by Bruckner himself as "the master."
