Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

From Page to Stage: Wagner as Regisseur
KATHERINE SYER

Wagner and Liszt: Elective Affinities
KENNETH HAMILTON

From Opera to Music Drama: Nominal Loss, Titular Gain
LYDIA GOEHR

Eine Kapitulation: Aristophanic Operetta as Cultural Warfare in 1870
THOMAS S. GREY

A Note on Tristan’s Death Wish
KAROL BERGER

Guides for Wagnerites: Leitmotifs and Wagnerian Listening
CHRISTIAN THORAU

German Jews and Wagner
LEON BOTSTEIN

PART II
BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTS

Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and Wagner’s Dresden
CLAIRE VON GLÜMER, HENRY CHORLEY
TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY

Catulle Mendès Visits Tribschen
CATULLE MENDÈS
TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY

Recollections of Villa Wahnfried from Wagner’s American Dentist
NEWELL SILL JENKINS
INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY

PART III
TOWARD A MUSIC OF THE FUTURE, 1840–1860

The Overture to Tannhäuser
FRANZ LISZT
INTRODUCED, EDITED, AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID TRIPPETT
TRANSLATED BY JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT

Letters to a Young Composer About Wagner
JOHANN CHRISTIAN LOBE
INTRODUCED, EDITED, AND TRANSLATED BY DAVID TRIPPETT

Franz Brendel’s Reconciliation Address
FRANZ BRENDEL
INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY JAMES DEAVILLE
TRANSLATED BY JAMES DEAVILLE AND MARY A. CICORA

PART IV
WAGNER AND PARIS

Wagner Admires Meyerbeer (Les Huguenots)
RICHARD WAGNER
TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY

Debacle at the Paris Opéra:
Tannhäuser and the French Critics, 1861
OSCAR COMETTANT, PAUL SCUDO
TRANSLATED BY THOMAS S. GREY
INTRODUCED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER
ANNOTATED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER AND THOMAS S. GREY

The Revue wagnérienne: Symbolism, Aestheticism
and Germanophilia
J. K. HUYSMANS, TEODOR DE WYZEWA, EDOUARD DUJARDIN
INTRODUCED BY STEVEN HUEBNER
SELECTIONS TRANSLATED BY BRENDAN KING AND CHARLOTTE MANDELL

PART V
THE BAYREUTH ERA

Press Releases from the Bayreuth Festival, 1876:
An Early Attempt at Spin Control
J. ZIMMERMANN
INTRODUCED, TRANSLATED, AND ANNOTATED BY NICHOLAS VAZSONYI

Hanslick contra Wagner:
“The Ring Cycle Comes to Vienna” and
“Parsifal Literature”
EDUARD HANSLICK
TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY

Hans von Wolzogen’s Parsifal (1887)
HANS VON WOLZOGEN
TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND EDITED BY MARY A. CICORA

Cosima Wagner’s Bayreuth
RICHARD POHL, ARTHUR SEIDL, EUGEN GURA, ARNOLD SCHERING,
HEINRICH CHEVALLEY
TRANSLATED BY MARY A. CICORA
INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID BRECKBILL

PART VI
THE COMPLETE PROGRAM NOTES OF RICHARD WAGNER

Wagner Introduces Wagner (and Beethoven):
Program Notes Written for Concert Performances by and of
Richard Wagner, 1846–1880
RICHARD WAGNER
TRANSLATED, ANNOTATED, AND INTRODUCED BY THOMAS S. GREY

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony

Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture

Overture to Tannhäuser

Overture to Der fliegende Holländer

Prelude to Lohengrin

L. van Beethoven, String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131

Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1

Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1 and Conclusion (“Transfiguration”)

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Preludes to Acts 1 and 3

Götterdämmerung

Die Walküre
Parsifal: Prelude to Act 1

Notes on the Contributors