Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume I: The Art-Work of the Future, etc.
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume I: The Art-Work of the Future, etc.
- Author
- Richard Wagner
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
- Place
- London
- Year
- 1892
- Language
- English; translated by William Ashton Ellis
- Type
- Collected prose / aesthetics
SCOPE & CONTENT
This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage works.
RESEARCH VALUE
Its value is documentary rather than neutral: Wagner’s arguments are polemical, historically situated and often inseparable from his personal and ideological positions. The volume is most useful when read alongside modern Wagner scholarship, contemporary criticism and the chronology of the works discussed.
EDITION AND CONTENT
The curated record identifies the 1892 London edition used as the principal bibliographic anchor, together with publisher, language and document type. Search aliases include shortened and variant forms of both title and author so the item remains discoverable even when the physical filename is abbreviated.
RESEARCH VALUE
Its value is documentary rather than neutral: Wagner’s arguments are polemical, historically situated and often inseparable from his personal and ideological positions. The volume is most useful when read alongside modern Wagner scholarship, contemporary criticism and the chronology of the works discussed.
- Catalogue completeness
- 6 / 10 core bibliographic fields