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Prelude 1813-1821. Alarums and excursions -- Part one 1821-1849. Apprenticeship ; A prerevolutionary awakening ; Prelude in the lower ranks ; The serious side of life ; Flight from Riga ; A German musician in Paris ; On the road to music drama ; Dr. Richard Faust in Dresden ; The revolutionary -- Part two 1849-1864. Crisis in exile ; Genesis of a religion in disguise ; Water, mountains, Nibelungs ; Know ye what is to come? ; The world is my idea ; The house on the green hill ; Peregrinations resumed ; How will it end, my friend? -- Part three 1864-1882. A farce with a first-class cast ; Between Munich and Tribschen ; Trials and tribulations ; Settling in at Bayreuth ; The first festival ; The open wound ; The German spirit and the west ; Redemption for the redeemer ; Genius, work, and character -- Postlude 1882-1883. Parsifal: the farewell ; Death in Venice ; Lament for the dead -- Appendix. Notes, comments, documents ; Chronology. |
