Richard Wagner: His Life and his Dramas

Contents

• Preface
• Part I . The Life of Wagner:
• 1. The boyhood of a genius
• 2. The first operas
• 3. Koenigsberg and Riga
• 4. 'The end of a musician in Paris'
• 5. Beginning of fame and hostility
• 6. Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger
• 7. 'Art and revolution'
• 8. Preaching what he practised
• 9. A stranger in a strange land
• 10. A second end in Paris
• 11. A monarch to the rescue
• 12. Some ideals realised
• 13. Finis coronat opus
• 14. The last drama
• 15. The character of the man
• Part II . The Artistic Aims of Wagner:
• 1. The lyric drama as he found it
• 2. The reforms of Wagner
• 3. The musical system
• 4. The system as completed
• Part III . The Great Music Dramas:
• 1. Introductory
• 2. Rienzi
• 3. Der fliegende Hollander
• 4. Tannhauser und der Sangerkrieg auf Wartburg
• 5. Lohengrin
• 6. Tristan und Isolde
• 7. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
• 8. Der Ring des Nibelungen
• 9. Parsifal
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Index.