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 3 covers the years 1859 to 1866.
Product details
March 2014Paperback
9781108007719
626 pages
229 × 35 × 152 mm
0.91kg
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- 1. The second assault on Paris
- 2. The year 1860
- 3. En route to 'Tannhäuser'
- 4. Gathering clouds
- 5. The storm breaks
- 6. Between Paris and Vienna
- 7. The Minna crisis
- 8. Shipwreck
- 9. The rescue
- 10. Wagner and Ludwig
- 11. At the Villa Pellet
- 12. Cosima
- 13. Settling down in Munich
- 14. Trouble brewing
- 15. The 'Tristan' production
- 16. After 'Tristan'
- 17. Semper and the Festival Theatre
- 18. 'Vincere scis, Hannibal'
- 19. '– Victoria uti nescis'
- 20. Haven in Triebschen
- 21. The triangle
- 22. The king and the triangle
- Appendixes
- Index.
