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| Contents |
Fact about Wagner. The legend -- Finck and Wagner -- The "dictionary of abuse" -- Resentment of Wagner's success -- Some specimens of contemporary criticism -- Hanslick -- The reception of Rienzi -- Various reasons for failure of an opera -- The Flying Dutchman -- Tannhauser -- Lohengrin -- Wagner's attitude towards the theatres -- The evidence from Venice -- Tannhauser in Paris -- Wagner and Breitkopf & Hartel -- Wagner and Vienna -- Wagner and Schotts -- Wagner and Munich -- Conclusion and moral -- Fiction about Wagner. The case of Ferdinand Praeger -- "The truth about Wagner" -- The unreliability of human testimony -- The qualifications of Messrs. Hurn and Root -- The authorship of Part IV of Mein Leben -- The truth about Part IV -- The "Ride of the Valkyries" -- Liszt and the Countess d'Agoult -- The truth of the matter -- The "impoverished Minna" libel -- The "affairs" with Frau Wille and Blandine Ollivier -- The Geyer question -- The Nietzsche an the manuscript of Mein Leben -- The true story of the crest -- The question of the authorship of Mein Leben -- Other errors of Messrs. Hurn and Root. |
| General note | First published, 1931. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 31030252 |
