The Life of Richard Wagner

The Life of Richard Wagner
Author: Ernest Newman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108007708

Newman's Life of Wagner, published between 1933 and 1947, the culmination of forty years' research, is a classic biography.

Life of R Wagner Vol 2

Life of R Wagner Vol 2
Author: Ernest Newman
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 697
Release: 2014-06-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0804152365

In the vast literature on Richard Wagner, Ernest Newman's classic four-volume Life remains unsurpassed. Volume II carries the story from 1848 to 1860. It describes the important, formative years in Wagner's life and reconstructs his role in the Dresden rising of 1849. Newman also discusses the changes that the Ring poem underwent during this period and illuminates Wagner's relations with his wife Minna, his mentor Liszt, and his circle in Zürich.