Richard Wagner: Musical Genius (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Richard Wagner: Musical Genius

But there was one thing which could free the captain from his dreadful fate, and that was human love. Once in seven years the devil allowed his victim to set foot upon land, and then if he could find a woman who would love him and remain faithful to him for the next seven years his doom would be lifted from him and he would be saved.' Such was the story round which Wagner wrote his drama - a fine piece of work that ends with the salvation of the do...