Revival: Life of Richard Wagner, Vol. I (1900)

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Carl Friedrich Glasenapp

Klappentext

This volume brings our story down to 1843, an important era in Richard Wagner's Life, with his entry, as composer, of two successful operas, upon a so-called "practical" career at one of the principal German theatres.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTORY 1. Family History 2. Adolf Wagner 3. Friedrich Wagner 4. Ludwig Geyer FIRST BOOK: CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH (1813-1833) 1. The Year 1813 2. Removal to Dresden 3. Geyer's Last Years 4. Richard Wagner as Child 5. The Kreuzschuler 6. Leipzig 7. Leipzig Court-Theatre, and July Revolution 8. The Student of Music 9. The C Major Symphony SECOND BOOK; STRAYINGS AND WANDERINGS (1833-1843) 1. Wurzburg: "Die Feen" 2. "Das Liebesverbot" 3. Magdeburg 4. Rosalie Wagner 5. Konigsberg 6. Riga 7. "Rienzi, Der Letzte Der Tribunen" 8. From Riga to Paris 9. First Parisian Disappointments 10. Completion of "Rienzi" 11. "Der Fliegende Hollander" 12. Dresden APPENDICES I. Genealogical Table II. Family Chronicle 1643-1813 III. Supplemental Notes Index