Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays

by Richard Wagner

Book Overview

"Saint Beethoven . . . . He was clad in somewhat untidy houseclothes, with a red woolen scarf wrapped round his waist; long, bushy grey hair hung in disorder from his head, and his gloomy, forbidding expression by no means tended to reassure. . . ." When Wagner published the first collection of his writings he was pleased to admit how well he wrote, even when young. Historians and musicians ever since have agreed that some of his most important and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803297637
• ISBN13: 9780803297630
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.1"