Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place

by Chris Walton

An investigation of the considerable influence of Wagner's stay in Zurich from 1849 to 1858 -- a period often discounted by scholars -- on his career.

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 wantedman in Germany, he fled to Zurich. Years later, he wrote that the...

• 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"