Preface A Psychological Preliminary Rienzi and the Flying Dutchman Tannhäuser and Lohengrin Art and Life Wagner’s Theory of Music, Poetry, and Music-Drama The Ring of the Nibelungen Wagner as German Tristan and Isolde and Die Meistersinger Some Later Prose Works Parsifal General Considerations
Overture: On Listening to Opera
Prelude
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 & …