Stories and Essays

by Richard Wagner

Book Overview

The ten volumes of Wagner's complete works are often impenetrable. This is a collection of nine short pieces by Wagner, selected for their readability and the light they shed on his development as a composer. They include the short stories about an unsucessful Beethoven-worshipping composer, which Wagner first published in Paris, the essays On Opera Libretti and Composition, The Niebelungen - World History as Told in Saga and What is German?, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812691466
• ISBN13: 9780812691467
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"