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RICHARD WAGNER HIS LIFE AND HIS DRAMAS A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work TO ROBERT EDWIN BONNER PREFACE CONTENTS

PART I—THE LIFE OF WAGNER PART II—THE ARTISTIC AIMS OF WAGNER PART III—THE GREAT MUSIC DRAMAS

PART I THE LIFE OF WAGNER RICHARD WAGNER CHAPTER I THE BOYHOOD OF A GENIUS CHAPTER II THE FIRST OPERAS CHAPTER III KÖNIGSBERG AND RIGA CHAPTER IV “THE END OF A MUSICIAN IN PARIS” CHAPTER V BEGINNING OF FAME AND HOSTILITY CHAPTER VI “LOHENGRIN” AND “DIE MEISTERSINGER” CHAPTER VII “ART AND REVOLUTION” CHAPTER VIII PREACHING WHAT HE PRACTISED CHAPTER IX A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND CHAPTER X A SECOND END IN PARIS CHAPTER XI A MONARCH TO THE RESCUE CHAPTER XII SOME IDEALS REALISED CHAPTER XIII FINIS CORONAT OPUS CHAPTER XIV THE LAST DRAMA CHAPTER XV THE CHARACTER OF THE MAN PART II THE ARTISTIC AIMS OF WAGNER CHAPTER I THE LYRIC DRAMA AS HE FOUND IT CHAPTER II THE REFORMS OF WAGNER CHAPTER III THE MUSICAL SYSTEM CHAPTER IV THE SYSTEM AS COMPLETED PART III THE GREAT MUSIC DRAMAS INTRODUCTORY RIENZI THE LAST OF THE TRIBUNES

RIENZI

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN

TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG

TANNHÄUSER

LOHENGRIN

I.—The Book II.—The Music

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE

I.—Sources of the Story II.—Wagner’s Dramatic Poem III.—The Musical Exposition

DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN

DAS RHEINGOLD DIE WALKÜRE SIEGFRIED GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN

I.—The Sources of the Poems II.—The Story as Told by Wagner III.—The Music of the Trilogy

PARSIFAL

I.—The Original Legends II.—The Drama of Wagner III.—The Musical Plan

APPENDIX A THE YOUTHFUL SYMPHONY APPENDIX B WAGNER AND THE BALLET INDEX

A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W

Belles-Lettres

BROWNING, POET AND MAN TENNYSON THE ROSSETTIS: DANTE GABRIEL AND CHRISTINA PETRARCH

Literary and Historic Haunts.

Where Ghosts Walk. Some Colonial Homesteads More Colonial Homesteads Little Journeys to the Homes of

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