Wagner: A Biography

Table of Contents

Volume 1: List of illustrations
Preface
Postscript to the preface
Acknowledgements
Summary bibliography
Part I. The Early Years (1813–1840):
1. The Wagner family
2. Wagner's mother
3. Boyhood
4. Beethoven
5. Studiosus musicae
6. The first three operas
7. Rienzi
Part II. The First Creative Period (1841–1848):
8. Der Fliegende Holländer
9. Tannhäuser
10. Hofkapellmeister in Dresden
11. Germanic myth and Greek Tragedy
12. Lohengrin
13. Money troubles
Part III. The Revolutionary (1848–1852):
14. Revolutionary ideas
15. Wieland der Schmied
16. From heroic opera to mythic drama
Part IV. Der Ring des Niebelungen (I) (1853–1857):
17. The vision of La Spezia
18. The myth becomes music
19. The London inferno
20. The Ring crisis
Part V. Tristan and Die Meistersinger (1857–1868):
21. In Asyl
22. Venice and Lucerne
23. Tannhäuser in Paris
24. Odyssey
Notes to volume 1. Volume 2:
25. Munich
26. Die Meistersinger
Part VI. Der Ring des Niebelungen (II) (1868–1877):
27. From Tribschen to Bayreuth
28. The first festival
29. Nietzche in Bayreuth
30. The nation's thanks
Part VII. Parsifal (1877–1883):
31. 'My Farewell to the World'
32. La lugubre gondola
Appendices
Chronological summary of Wagner's life and work
List of works
Correspondence of Richard and Cosina Wagner
Notes to volume 2
Bibliography
Index to volumes 1 and 2.

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