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Source: NYT

5-18-16

Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90

His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters, for whom the master could do no wrong.

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Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90