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currentmusicology-5317	Coleman, Jeremy	Review of Eva Rieger. 2011. Richard Wagner’s Women. Translated by Chris Walton; and Laurence Dreyfus. 2010. Wagner and the Erotic Impulse.	2013	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5541	263	54	Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love.11 Any simultaneous publication inevitably misses the opportunity for collaboration or cross–fertilization, yet the release of these books in anticipation of the bicentenary would seem to suggest that love, in Wagner studies at least, is Current Musicology 134 in the air: Emslie’s claim for the “centrality of love” in Wagner—however vaguely defined—is one that might unite Dreyfus and Rieger in agreement. Both authors may be commended for placing Wagner’s music center stage, in what is perhaps a welcome corrective against the tendency in Wagner studies toward fashioning Wagner as a fundamentally literary figure contrary to his own claims to be a musician first and fore- most.	cache/currentmusicology-5317.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5317.txt