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Richard Wagner: His Life and His Dramas

by W. J. Henderson

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  1. 1Title page
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Part I — The Life of Wagner Richard Wagner
  4. 4Chapter II — The First Operas
  5. 5Chapter III — Königsberg and Riga
  6. 6Chapter IV — “The End of a Musician in Paris”
  7. 7Chapter V — Beginning of Fame and Hostility
  8. 8Chapter VI — “Lohengrin” and “Die Meistersinger”
  9. 9Chapter VII — “Art and Revolution”
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Preaching What He Practised
  11. 11Chapter IX — A Stranger in a Strange Land
  12. 12Chapter X — A Second End in Paris
  13. 13Chapter XI — A Monarch to the Rescue
  14. 14Chapter XII — Some Ideals Realised
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Finis Coronat Opus
  16. 16Chapter XIV — The Last Drama
  17. 17Chapter XV — The Character of the Man
  18. 18Part II — The Artistic Aims of Wagner
  19. 19Chapter I — The Lyric Drama as He Found It
  20. 20Chapter II — The Reforms of Wagner
  21. 21Chapter III — The Musical System
  22. 22Chapter IV — The System as Completed
  23. 23Part III — The Great Music Dramas
  24. 24Rienzi — The Last of the Tribunes
  25. 25Der Fliegende Holländer
  26. 26Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg Auf Wartburg
  27. 27Lohengrin
  28. 28Tristan und Isolde
  29. 29Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  30. 30Der Ring des Nibelungen
  31. 31Parsifal
  32. 32Appendix A — The Youthful Symphony
  33. 33Appendix B — Wagner and the Ballet

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