Richard Wagner

  • Richard Wagner: His Life and His Dramas; a Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work
    Richard Wagner: His Life and His Dramas; a Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work
    By William James Henderson

    His Life and His Dramas; a Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work William James Henderson. San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chemnitz, Crefeld, Temesvar, Salzburg, Melbourne, Lemburg, 1877; Gorlitz, Barmen, Regensburg, ...

  • Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide
    Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide
    By Michael Saffle

    Among the contributors (and essay topics) are: Barry Millington (Holländer, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin); David Hamilton (Tristan); Kenneth Furie (Meistersinger and Parsifal); and Jon Alan Conrad (the Ring).

  • Richard Wagner: Parsifal
    Richard Wagner: Parsifal
    By Lucy Beckett

    ... by Patricia Howard Igor Stravinsky : The Rake's Progress by Paul Griffiths Leoš Janáček : Kát'a Kabanová by John Tyrrell Giuseppe Verdi : Falstaff by James A. Hepokoski Benjamin Britten : Peter Grimes by Philip Brett Giacomo Puccini ...

  • Richard Wagner: My Life
    Richard Wagner: My Life
    By Richard Wagner

    A reprint of the first English paperback edition of Richard Wagner's autobiography.

  • Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner
    By W.J Henderson

    First performance in New York, Academy of Music, March 4, 1878, by the Pappenheim-Adams Company. Cast. Adriano Mme. Eugenia Pappenheim. Irene Miss Alexandre Human. Cola Rienzi Charles Adams. Paolo Orsini 138.

  • Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide
    Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide
    By Michael Saffle

    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 ...

  • Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer
    Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer
    By Thomas S. Grey

    Finally , Wolzogen argues ( with the composer ) that in the Holländer Wagner became a true artist and poet for the first time , with his subject matter and musical style firmly rooted in the Volk . Senta , the child of the Volk and of ...

  • Richard Wagner: A Guide to Research
    Richard Wagner: A Guide to Research
    By Michael Saffle

    “ Dwight and Perkins on Wagner : A Controversy Within the American Cultivated Tradition , 1852–1854 . ” In Music and Civilization : Essays in Honor of Paul Henry Lang , ed . Edmond Strainchamps and Maria Rika Maniates , with Christopher ...

  • Richard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life
    Richard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life
    By John Louis DiGaetani

    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, ...

  • Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
    Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
    By Arthur Groos

    Zukunftsbilder: Richard Wagners Revolution und ihre Folgen (Schliengen, 2002), 161–78 Brown, Jonathan. 'Tristan und Isolde' on Record: A Comprehensive Discography of Wagner's Music Drama with a Critical Introduction to the Recordings ...

  • Richard Wagner: Theory and Theatre
    Richard Wagner: Theory and Theatre
    By Dieter Borchmeyer, Professor of German and Theatre Studies Dieter Borchmeyer

    These are examined in their literary, ideological, and socio-political contexts (including the problem of anti-Semitism).

  • Richard Wagner: A Life in Music
    Richard Wagner: A Life in Music
    By Martin Geck

    There are few, if any, scholars today who know more about Wagner and his legacy than Geck, who builds upon his extensive research and considerable knowledge as one of the editors of the Complete Works to offer a distinctive appraisal of the ...

  • Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner
    By Hans Gál

    Combines biographical and critical studies of Wagner and his music, examining his personal merits and defects and assessing his artistry and achievement

  • Richard Wagner: The Story of an Artist
    Richard Wagner: The Story of an Artist
    By comte Guy de Pourtalès

    Richard Wagner: The Story of an Artist

  • Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner
    By Eugen Schmitz

    Richard Wagner

  • Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner
    By Egon Voss

    Egon Voss, einer der besten Kenner des Lebens und der Werke Wagners, hat eine fundierte und sehr gut lesbare Biographie seines Protagonisten verfasst, die gleichermaßen dessen kompositorischer Größe wie seinen persönlichen (Un- )Tiefen ...

  • Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner
    By Charles Baudelaire

    Richard Wagner

  • Richard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life
    Richard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life
    By John Louis DiGaetani

    This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, 200 years after his birth, re-examining his life in light of new documents and new sensibilities.

  • Richard Wagner: My Life
    Richard Wagner: My Life
    By Richard Wagner

    The distinguished German composer depicts his life, discusses the development of his musical style, and describes the production of his operas

  • Richard Wagner: Self-Promotion and the Making of a Brand
    Richard Wagner: Self-Promotion and the Making of a Brand
    By Nicholas Vazsonyi

    This is the first study to examine the innovative ways in which Wagner made himself a celebrity, promoting himself using every means available: autobiography, journal articles, short stories, newspaper announcements, letters, even his ...