Wagner: A Biography

Contents

• Volume 1: List of illustrations
• Preface
• Postscript to the preface
• Acknowledgements
• Summary bibliography
• Part I . The Early Years (1813-1840):
• 1. The Wagner family
• 2. Wagner's mother
• 3. Boyhood
• 4. Beethoven
• 5. Studiosus musicae
• 6. The first three operas
• 7. Rienzi
• Part II . The First Creative Period (1841-1848):
• 8. Der Fliegende Hollander
• 9. Tannhauser
• 10. Hofkapellmeister in Dresden
• 11. Germanic myth and Greek Tragedy
• 12. Lohengrin
• 13. Money troubles
• Part III . The Revolutionary (1848-1852):
• 14. Revolutionary ideas
• 15. Wieland der Schmied
• 16. From heroic opera to mythic drama
• Part IV . Der Ring des Niebelungen (I) (1853-1857):
• 17. The vision of La Spezia
• 18. The myth becomes music
• 19. The London inferno
• 20. The Ring crisis
• Part V . Tristan and Die Meistersinger (1857-1868):
• 21. In Asyl
• 22. Venice and Lucerne
• 23. Tannhauser in Paris
• 24. Odyssey
• Notes to volume 1. Volume 2: 25. Munich
• 26. Die Meistersinger
• Part VI . Der Ring des Niebelungen (II) (1868-1877):
• 27. From Tribschen to Bayreuth
• 28. The first festival
• 29. Nietzche in Bayreuth
• 30. The nation's thanks
• Part VII . Parsifal (1877-1883):
• 31. 'My Farewell to the World'
• 32. La lugubre gondola
• Appendices
• Chronological summary of Wagner's life and work
• List of works
• Correspondence of Richard and Cosina Wagner
• Notes to volume 2
• Bibliography
• Index to volumes 1 and 2.