The Life of Richard Wagner
The Life of Richard Wagner
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GBPErnest Newman's four-volume Life of Wagner, originally published between 1933 and 1947, remains a classic work of biography. The culmination of forty years' research on the composer and his works (Newman's first Study of Wagner was first published in 1899), these books present a detailed portrait of perhaps the most influential, the most controversial and the most frequently reviled composer in the whole history of western music. Newman was aware that no biography can ever claim to be complete or completely accurate: 'The biographer can at no stage hope to have reached the final truth. All he can do is to make sure that whatever statement he may make, whatever conclusion he may come to, shall be based on the whole of the evidence available at the time of writing.' In this aim he triumphantly succeeds. Volume 1 covers the years 1813 to 1848.
Product details
March 2014Paperback
9781108007696
574 pages
229 × 152 × 33 mm
0.83kg
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Paternity and ancestry
- 2. Geyer
- 3. The child
- 4. The Kreuzschüler
- 5. The Leipzig student
- 6. Würzburg
- 7. The last six months in Leipzig
- 8. The state of music in Germany
- 9. The economic and social status of the musician
- 10. Magdeburg
- 11. Minna
- 12. Königsberg and Riga
- 13. The voyage to London
- 14. The 'conquest of Paris'
- 15. The return to Dresden
- 16. The early years in Dresden
- 17. The middle years in Dresden
- 18. Friends and enemies
- 19. The storm brewing
- 20. Nearing the end in Dresden
- Index.
