A reprint of the first English paperback edition of Richard Wagner's autobiography.
Schopen- hauer had died there a short time before. It is surely significant that as he was parting from Minna in Frankfurt, his thoughts were ofSchopenhauer. The philosopher had died in 1860, the year before Wagner's Parisian disaster, ...
According to the Meister , " One enters with the hush of expectation , one passes hours spellbound in the hush of realization , and one leaves amid the hush of meditation . ” 115 Of particular interest in this volume is William C.
Richard Wagner's Prose Works
Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner: Selected from His Writings and Translated by Edward L. Burlingame ; with a...
Wagner On Music And Drama
Ranging far beyond the bounds of conventional biography and music history, this book examines the cultural background of Wagner's art, including the nether regions of nationalism and racism. New Introduction...
Harvard University's Widener Library purportedly owns a copy (shelfnumber “Widener Depository Phil 3640.190.20”) but it was unavailable for examination by the present author; so was the copy identified in the Library of Congress on-line ...
It is well known that Richard Wagner, the renowned and controversial 19th century composer, exhibited intense anti-Semitism. The evidence is everywhere in his writings as well as in conversations...
The popularity of The Lord of the Rings echoes a similar work about a ring with magical powers. This work is known as The Ring of the Nibelung, and it consists of four separate operas.
This book also includes translations of essays, reviews, and memoirs by champions and detractors of Wagner; glimpses into his domestic sphere in Tribschen and Bayreuth; and all of Wagner's program notes to his own works.