The Life of Richard Wagner 4 Volume Paperback Set

by Ernest Newman

Overview

Ernest Newman's four-volume Life of Wagner, originally published between 1933 and 1947, remains a classic work of biography. The culmination of forty years' research on the composer and his works (Newman's first Study of Wagner was first published in 1899), these books present a detailed portrait of perhaps the most influential, the most controversial and the most frequently reviled composer in the whole history of western music. Newman was aware that no biography can ever claim to be complete or completely accurate: 'The biographer can at no stage hope to have reached the final truth. All he can do is to make sure that whatever statement he may make, whatever conclusion he may come to, shall be based on the whole of the evidence available at the time of writing.' In this aim he triumphantly succeeds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108007733
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/20/2014
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Music
Pages:	2680
Product dimensions:	13.78(w) x 9.84(h) x 5.91(d)

Table of Contents

Volume I: Foreword; 1. Paternity and ancestry; 2. Geyer; 3. The child; 4. The Kreuzschüler; 5. The Leipzig student; 6. Würzburg; 7. The last six months in Leipzig; 8. The state of music in Germany; 9. The economic and social status of the musician; 10. Magdeburg; 11. Minna; 12. Königsberg and Riga; 13. The voyage to London; 14. The 'conquest of Paris'; 15. The return to Dresden; 16. The early years in Dresden; 17. The middle years in Dresden; 18. Friends and enemies; 19. The storm brewing; 20. Nearing the end in Dresden; Index; Volume II: Foreword; 1. Wagner and politics in 1848; 2. The literary works of 1848; 3. Leading up to revolution; 4. Wagner and the revolution I: the legal case against him; 5. Wagner and the revolution II: his share in the revolt; 6. Between Zürich and Paris; 7. Jessie Laussot; 8. Friends and public work in Zürich; 9. Liszt, Wagner and 'Lohengrin'; 10. Liszt and Weimar; 11. The rising tide; 12. Uhlig's visit: expansion of the Nibelungen plan; 13. Weakening of the link with Weimar; 14. Distractions and diet: the 'Cellini' episode; 15. The 'hailstorm'; 16. Growing estrangement from the world; 17. Difficulties in the rounding of the 'Ring'; 18. Marking time in Zürich; 19. Liszt and Wagner meet again: the 'Ring' music begun; 20. Wagner's finances in Zürich; 21. The year 1854; 22. The London inferno; 23. Nearing the end in Zürich; 24. Between Zürich and Paris; 25. The Asyl catastrophe; 26. Calm in Venice; 27. From Venice to Lucerne; 28. Preparing for the siege of Paris; Appendixes; Index; Volume III: Foreword; 1. The second assault on Paris; 2. The year 1860; 3. En route to 'Tannhäuser'; 4. Gathering clouds; 5. The storm breaks; 6. Between Paris and Vienna; 7. The Minna crisis; 8. Shipwreck; 9. The rescue; 10. Wagner and Ludwig; 11. At the Villa Pellet; 12. Cosima; 13. Settling down in Munich; 14. Trouble brewing; 15. The 'Tristan' production; 16. After 'Tristan'; 17. Semper and the Festival Theatre; 18. 'Vincere scis, Hannibal'; 19. '– Victoria uti nescis'; 20. Haven in Triebschen; 21; The triangle; 22. The king and the triangle; Appendixes; Index; Volume IV: Foreword; 1. The Malvina Schnorr episode: I; 2. The Malvina Schnorr episode: II; 3. Moves in Munich; 4. Shadows falling; 5. Fröbel and the 'Süddeutsche Presse'; 6. The shadows deepen; 7. The 'Meistersinger' year'; 8. The Bülow–Cosima crisis; 9. Cosima decides; 10. The breach with the king; 11. The 'Rhinegold' aftermath; 12. Sunshine and cloud in Triebschen; 13. The Bayreuth idea; 14. Planning Bayreuth; 15. Wagner and Nietzsche: I; 16. Wagner and Nietzsche: II; 17. The foundation-stone; 18. Polemics in 1872; 19. Difficulties in Bayreuth; 20. The king to the rescue; 21. Spadework in 1874; 22. Bayreuth in 1875; 23. Preparing for the festival; 24. The festival and after; 25. Nietzsche in 1876; 26. Elisabeth's false witness; 27. The realities of the matter; 28. The load of care; 29. Bayreuth saved; 30. The breach with Nietzsche; 31. Work at 'Parsifal'; 32. In search of health; 33. Trouble with Bülow and others; 34. On the way to 'Parsifal'; 35. Nearing the goal; 36. 'Parsifal'; 37. The end in Venice; Appendixes; Index.