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Richard Wagner's prose works |
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Volume 1. The art-work of the future -- Volume 2. Opera and drama -- Volume 3. The theatre -- Volume 4. Art and politics -- Volume 5. Actors and singers -- Volume 6. Religion and art -- Volume 7. In Paris and Dresden -- Volume 8. Posthumous. |
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Volume 1. The art-work of the future. Dedication -- Translator's preface -- Author's introduction to the collected works -- Autobiographic sketch -- Art and revolution, with introductions -- The art-work of the future -- Wieland the Smith -- Art and climate -- A communication to my friends -- Appendix. |
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Volume 2. Opera and drama. Translator's preface -- Dedication of the second edition (orig.) -- Preface to the first edition (orig.) -- Introduction -- Part I. Opera and the nature of music -- Part II. The play and the nature of dramatic poetry -- Part III. The arts of poetry and tone in the drama of the future. |
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Volume 3. The theatre. Translator's preface -- Author's introduction -- On the "Goethe-Stiftung" -- A theatre at Zurich -- On musical criticism -- Judaism in music -- Mementoes of Spontini -- Homage to L. Spohr and W. Fischer -- Gluck's overture to Iphigenia in Aulis -- On the performing of Tannhäuser -- Remarks on performing "The Flying Dutchman" [Der Fliegende Hollander] -- Explanatory programmes. Beethoven's Heroic symphony ; Beethoven's overture to Coriolanus ; Overture to Der fliegende Holländer ; Overture to Tannhäuser ; Prelude to Lohengrin -- On Franz Liszt's symphonic poems -- Epilogue to the Nibelung's Ring -- Preface to the Ring poem -- A letter to Hector Berlioz -- Zukunftsmusik (Music of the future) -- On the production of Tannhäuser in Paris -- The Vienna Opera-House. |
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Volume 4. Art and politics. Translator's preface -- To the Kingly Friend (poem) -- On state and religion -- German art and German policy -- Appendices. The Vaterlandsverein speech ; Letter to Von Lüttichau -- What is German? -- A music-school for Munich -- Ludwig Schnorr of Carolsfeld -- Notices: Introduction ; W.H. Riehl ; Ferdinand Hiller ; A remembrance of Rossini ; Eduard Devrient -- About conducting -- Three poems. Rheingold ; On the completion of Siegfried ; August 25th, 1870. |
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Volume 5. Actors and singers. Translator's preface -- To the German army before Paris (Poem) -- A capitulation -- Reminiscences of Auber -- Beethoven -- The destiny of opera -- Actors and singers -- The rendering of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony -- Letters and minor essays. Letter to an actor ; A glance at the German operatic stage to-day ; Letter to an Italian friend on the production of Lohengrin at Bologna ; To the Burgomaster of Bologna ; To Friedrich Nietzsche ; On the name Musikdrama ; Prologue to the reading of Die Götterdämmerung before a select audience in Berlin -- Bayreuth. Final report on the fates and circumstances that attended the execution of the stage-festival play Der Ring des Nibelungen down to the founding of Wagner-societies ; The festival-playhouse at Bayreuth, with an account of the laying of its foundation stone. |
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Volume 6. Religion and art. Translator's preface -- Spohr's Jessonda at Leipzig -- Minor Bayreuth papers. To the presidents of Wagner-Vereins ; Proposed Bayreuth School ; Introduction to the first number of the Bayreuther Blätter ; Introduction to the work of Hans von Wolzogen's ; Postponement of Parsifal ; Introduction to the year 1880 ; Announcement of Parsifal performances ; Introduction to a work of Count Gobineau's -- Modern -- Public and popularity -- The public in time and space -- Retrospect of the stage-festivals of 1876 -- Shall we hope? -- On poetry and composition -- On operatic poetry and composition -- On the application of music to the drama -- Against vivisection -- Religion and art. "What boots this knowledge?" ; "Know thyself" ; Hero-dom and Christendom -- End of the Patronat-Verein -- The stipendiary fund -- Parsifal at Bayreuth -- A youthful symphony -- Letter to H. von Stein -- The Human Womanly (fragment). |
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Volume 7. In Paris and Dresden. Translator's preface -- Author's introduction -- Das Liebesverbot -- A German musician in Paris. A pilgrimage to Beethoven ; An end in Paris ; A happy evening ; On German music ; Pergolesi's Stabat Mater -- The virtuoso and the artist ; Du Métier de Virtuose ; The artist and publicity ; Rossini's Stabat Mater -- Halévy's Reine de Chypre -- Author's introduction to Vol. II of the Gesammelte Schriften -- Weber's re-interment. Report ; Speech -- Beethoven's choral symphony at Dresden. Report ; Programme -- The Wibelungen -- The Nibelungen-Myth -- Tercentenary toast -- A German national theatre. |
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Volume 8. Posthumous. Translator's preface -- Siegfried's death -- Discarded. On German opera ; Pasticcio ; Bellini ; Parisian amusements ; Parisian fatalities for the German ; Letters from Paris, 1841 ; Halévy and La Reine de Chypre ; Jottings on the Ninth Symphony ; Artist and critic ; Greeting from Saxony to the Viennese ; On E. Devrient's History of German Acting ; Theatre-reform ; Man and established society ; The Revolution ; Invitation to the production of Tristan in Munich -- Posthumous. The Saracen Woman ; Sketch for The Apostle's Love-feast ; Jesus of Nazareth ; Sketches and fragments -- General chronological table of the contents of the eight volumes. |
| General note | Reprinted from the [1892-1899] London edition by arrangement with Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. |
| General note | Each volume has translator's preface, summary and index. |
| General note | General chronological table of contents in vol. 1. |
