An investigation of the considerable influence of Wagner's stay in Zurich from 1849 to 1858 -- a period often discounted by scholars -- on his career.
Richard Wagner's Zurich: A City Tour
An 1890 collection, in English translation, of letters by Wagner which contain forthright views on contemporary musicians and public figures.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
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, ...
This multidisciplinary collection of readings offers suggestive new interpretations of Richard Wagner's ideological position in German history.
Newman's Life of Wagner, published between 1933 and 1947, the culmination of forty years' research, is a classic biography.
A lop-sided correspondence, as published, for none of Uhlig's letters have come down to us; but from Wagner's round hundred to him, in three years and a half, we may judge the inestimable boon it was to have at least one appreciative ...
Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century
Highlighting this collection is the notorious 1850 article "Judaism in Music, " which caused such a firestorm that nearly twenty years later Wagner published an unapologetic appendix.
Selected Letters of Richard Wagner