Wagner and Venice
- Author: Barker, John
Throughout his book Barker makes effective use of newspaper archives. . . . Barker's 'assimilative source study' has now largely filled the critical gap [regarding the disputed biographical documents... — More…
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Contents
- Prologue: A Letter to Ludwig
- The First Encounter
- From Visit to Vacation
- From Residence to Mortality
- Venice in Wagner's Eyes
- Watching
- Mourning
- Remembering: A German for the Germans
- Remembering: An Italian for the Italians
- Italy, Venice, and "Wagnerism"
- The "Wandering Wagnerians"
- Today the Fenice, Tomorrow all Italy
- Venetian Assessments
- Memory and Commemoration
- Surviving Significance
- Addenda