The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, vocabulary, and impact. Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von B low, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch, and their many notable prot g s, a Wagnerian art of interpretation became the norm in Europe and...