"Il barbaro è vinto". D'Annunzio contra Wagner . Dal sinfonismo tedesco alla musica del silenzio nei romanzi di Gabriele D'Annunzio

"You won the barbarian". D'annunzio contra Wagner. Symphonic from German to music of silence in the novels of Gabriele D'Annunzio Summary This study aims to demonstrate how music has a relevance in the prose of Gabriele D'Annunzio. It is not just an aesthetic embellishment, sound sweetening syntax, melodic accompaniment to the events described. It suggests, rather, as a real source of inspiration, texture composition that motivates and supports events and characters. By analyzing the novels most markedly musical, symbol of opposing cultural trends and conceptual changes of direction, is possible to see as a controversial figure of Wagner, whose music inspires and influences the novel Il trionfo della morte , already in the prose immediately following, Il fuoco , in the name of a radical renewal of the music gives way to the musicality of the Italian Baroque. Ancient music is off ered, paradoxically, as a vehicle for a radical renewal: from the ideal german "modern prose" of Trionfo , D'Annunzio arrives to equally ideal prose inspired by italian "modern music"