Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place

by Chris Walton

When the people of Dresden rose up against their king in May 1849, Richard Wagner went from Royal Kapellmeister to republican revolutionary overnight. He gambled everything, but the rebellion failed, and he lost all. Now a wanted man in Germany, he fled to Zurich. Years later, he wrote that the city was "devoid of any public art form" and full of "simple people who knew nothing of my work as an artist." But he lied: Zurich boasted arguably the world's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133313
• ISBN13: 9781571133311
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"