Category: Biographies
His Birth--The Father's Death--His Mother Remarries--Removal to Dresden--Theatre and Music--At School--Translation of Homer--Through Poetry to Music--Returning to Leipzig--Beethoven's Symphonies--Resolution to be a Musician--Conceals this Resolution--Composes Music and Poetry-...
A German Art--Efforts to maintain the Acquired Results--Concerts in London--Recognition abroad and Lukewarmness at home--The "Nibelungen" in Vienna--"Parsifal"--Increasing Popul...
11. Chapter 11Visit to Liszt--Flight to Foreign Lands--Three Pamphlets--"Lohengrin" Performed--Wagner's Musical Ideas Expressed in Words--Resumption of the Nibelungen Poem--The Idea of the Po...
10. Chapter 10Success and Recognition--Hofkapellmeister to the Saxon Court--New Clouds--"Tannhaeuser" Misunderstood--The Myths of "The Flying Dutchman" and "Tannhaeuser"--Aversion to Meyerbee...
13. Chapter 13A Vienna Critic--"Judaism in Music"--The War of 1870--Wagner's Second Wife--"The Thought of Baireuth"--Wagner-Clubs--The "Kaiser March"--Baireuth--Increasing Progress--Concerts-...
12. Chapter 12Successful Concerts--Plans for a New Theatre--Offenbach's Music Preferred--Concerts Again--New Hindrances and Disappointments--King Louis of Bavaria--Rescue and Hope--New Life--...
9. Chapter 9In Vienna--His Symphony Performed--Modern Ideas--"The Fairies,"--"Das Liebesverbot"--Becomes Kapellmeister--Mina Planer--Hard Times--Experiences and Studies--"Rienzi"--Paris--Fi...
8. Chapter 8His Birth--The Father's Death--His Mother Remarries--Removal to Dresden--Theatre and Music--At School--Translation of Homer--Through Poetry to Music--Returning to Leipzig--Beeth...
7. Chapter 7A German Art--Efforts to maintain the Acquired Results--Concerts in London--Recognition Abroad and Lukewarmness at Home--The "Nibelungen" in Vienna--"Parsifal"--Increasing Popul...
4. Chapter 4Visit to Liszt--Flight to Foreign Lands--Three Pamphlets--"Lohengrin" Performed--Wagner's Musical Ideas Expressed in Words--Resumption of the Nibelungen Poem--The Idea of the Po...
1. Chapter 1His Birth--The Father's Death--His Mother Remarries--Removal to Dresden--Theatre and Music--At School--Translation of Homer--Through Poetry to Music--Returning to Leipzig--Beeth...
3. Chapter 3Success and Recognition--Hofkapellmeister to the Saxon Court--New Clouds--"Tannhaeuser" Misunderstood--The Myths of "The Flying Dutchman" and "Tannhaeuser"--Aversion to Meyerbee...
6. Chapter 6A Vienna Critic--"Judaism in Music"--The War of 1870--Wagner's Second Wife--"The Thought of Baireuth"--Wagner-Clubs--The "Kaiser March"--Baireuth--Increasing Progress--Concerts-...
5. Chapter 5Successful Concerts--Plans for a New Theatre--Offenbach's Music Preferred--Concerts Again--New Hindrances and Disappointments--King Louis of Bavaria--Rescue and Hope--New Life--...
2. Chapter 2In Vienna--His Symphony Performed--Modern Ideas--"The Fairies"--"Das Liebesverbot"--Becomes Kapellmeister--Mina Planer--Hard Times--Experiences and Studies--"Rienzi"--Paris--Fir...