Ferdinand Praeger

Wagner as I Knew Him (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

SELDOM has the proverb "The child is father to the man" been more completely verified in the life of any prominent brain-worker than in that of Richard Wagner. The serious thinker of threescore, with his soul deep in his work, is the developed school-boy of thirteen lauded by his masters for unusual application and earnestness. All his defects and virtues, his affections and antipathies, can be traced to their original sources in his childhood. No great individuality was ever less influenced by misfortune or success in after-life than Wagner. The mission he felt within him and which he resolutely set himself to accomplish, he unswervingly pursued throughout the varied phases of his eventful career. Beyond contention, Richard Wagner is, I think, the greatest art personality of this century,-unequalled as a musician, great as a poet as regards the matter, moral, and mode of expression, whilst in dramatic construction a very Shakespeare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783748117179
• Artikelnr.: 54694783

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
1. 'The child is father to the man'
2. His visit to an uncle
3. Wagner enters the Kreuzschule, Dresden
4. Leipzic
5. Revolution and romanticism
6. Life and troubles at Magdeburg
7. First impressions
8. Boulogne, 1839
9. Paris, 1839-42
10. Paris, 1839-42 (cont.)
11. Dresden, 1842-3
12. Hostility of the Dresden press
13. 'Tannhäuser'
14. The Saxon revolution
15. The new chamber of deputies
16. Wagner seeks asylum in Paris
17. 'Judaism in music'
18. Wagner invited to London
19. The 9th Symphony rehearsed
20. Letters of Wagner
21. Zurich 1856
22. Wagner's health shattered
23. Letters from Wagner
24. Munich.