The music critic of the New York Tribune, who heard Wagner’s music dramas establish themselves in America, explains their sources and structure. Krehbiel begins with the prototypes and elements of the Wagnerian drama, then works through Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger with its cobbler-poet Hans Sachs, Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal.
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