Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1 The Case of Wagner

2 Prejudices and Banalities

3 Getting under Way

4 Domesticating Wagner

5 Grandeur and Suffering in Wagner: Some Case Studies

6 Lohengrin and its Prelude

7 Wagner Ponders

8 What is the Ring About?

9 Men and Gods

10 The Fearless Hero

11 The Passion of Passion

12 Art, Tradition and Authority

13 The Ring Resumed

14 Redemption to the Redeemer

15 Postlude: Wagner and Culture

CHRONOLOGY

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Tolstoy’s Diaries

Music and the Mind

Epstein

Dr Johnson & Mr Savage

About the Author

Praise

About the Publisher