Richard Wagner
Fact and Fiction about Wagner
Fact about Wagner The Legend Finck and Wagner The ‘Dictionary of Abuse’ Resentment of Wagner’s Success Some Specimens of Contemporary Criticism Hanslick The Reception of Rienzi Various Reasons for the Failure of an Opera The Flying Dutchman Tannhäuser Lohengrin Wagner’s Attitude Towards the Theatres The Evidence from Venice Tannhäuser in Paris Wagner and Breitkopf & …
Wie viel Musik braucht der Mensch?
Eine Art Vorwort Meine Treffen mit Verdi Giuseppe e Sylvia: Eine Begegnung Giuseppe Verdis mit der Dichterin Sylvia Plath Mozart – der größte Irrtum der Natur Mozart – das irdischte Kind Schumann, Schubert und ihr Schatten Schumann, Schubert und der Schnee Das Wagnerfestival in Altaussee Besuch in Bayreuth 2007 Der verborgene Traum des Alexander Zemlinsky …
The Wagner Compendium
Calendar of Wagner’s Life, Works and Related Events Barry Millington Who’s Who of Wagner’s Contemporaries Barry Millington Historical Background Konrad Bund The Holy Roman Empire from 1618 to 1789 The French Revolution and the Wars of Liberation: 1789-1815 Reaction and revolution: 1815-1849 German unification ‘from above’: 1850-1871 The Reich in Europe: 1871-1883 Intellectual Background Philosophy …
Bayreuth
‘Strong and fair, see it stand’ ‘The eternal work is done’ ‘Here I sit, on alert, guarding the home’ ‘Oh, Siegfried! I was always yours’ ‘Thus evil enters this house’ ‘All that lives and soon must die’ ‘Marvel upon marvel now appears’ ‘It’s mine and I’m keeping it’ ‘Do you know what you saw?’