Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; 1. The Malvina Schnorr episode: I; 2. The Malvina Schnorr episode: II; 3. Moves in Munich; 4. Shadows falling; 5. Fröbel and the 'Süddeutsche Presse'; 6. The shadows deepen; 7. The 'Meistersinger' year; 8. The Bülow-Cosima crisis; 9. Cosima decides; 10. The breach with the king; 11. The 'Rhinegold' aftermath; 12. Sunshine and cloud in Triebschen; 13. The Bayreuth idea; 14. Planning Bayreuth; 15. Wagner and Nietzsche: I; 16. Wagner and Nietzsche: II; 17. The foundation-stone; 18. Polemics in 1872; 19. Difficulties in Bayreuth; 20. The king to the rescue; 21. Spadework in 1874; 22. Bayreuth in 1875; 23. Preparing for the festival; 24. The festival and after; 25. Nietzsche in 1876; 26. Elisabeth's false witness; 27. The realities of the matter; 28. The load of care; 29. Bayreuth saved; 30. The breach with Nietzsche; 31. Work at 'Parsifal'; 32. In search of health; 33. Trouble with Bülow and others; 34. On the way to 'Parsifal'; 35. Nearing the goal; 36. 'Parsifal'; 37. The end in Venice; Appendixes; Index.

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Ernest 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 4 covers the years 1866 to 1883.