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This curated dossier identifies Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2 by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt as a distinct Library resource and makes it discoverable through normalized title and author forms. The work is valuable as a historical source, critical study or documentary witness and belongs to…

This curated dossier identifies Beethoven by Richard Wagner as a distinct Library resource and makes it discoverable through normalized title and author forms. The work is valuable as a historical source, critical study or documentary witness and belongs to the core literature surrounding musical biography, correspondence and reception.

This curated dossier identifies My Life, Volume 1 by Richard Wagner and makes the work discoverable through the unified Library search even when the underlying document uses a shortened or inconsistent technical filename. The record preserves the work as a bibliographic reference and places it within the historical…

This curated dossier identifies My Life, Volume 2 by Richard Wagner and makes the work discoverable through the unified Library search even when the underlying document uses a shortened or inconsistent technical filename. The record preserves the work as a bibliographic reference and places it within the historical…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This curated dossier identifies The Life of Richard Wagner, Volume 2 by Ernest Newman and makes the work discoverable through the unified Library search even when the underlying document uses a shortened or inconsistent technical filename. The record preserves the work as a bibliographic reference and places it…

This curated dossier identifies The Life of Richard Wagner, Volume 3 by Ernest Newman and makes the work discoverable through the unified Library search even when the underlying document uses a shortened or inconsistent technical filename. The record preserves the work as a bibliographic reference and places it…

This curated dossier identifies The Life of Richard Wagner, Volume 4 by Ernest Newman and makes the work discoverable through the unified Library search even when the underlying document uses a shortened or inconsistent technical filename. The record preserves the work as a bibliographic reference and places it…

This curated dossier identifies Wagner and His Works by Henry T. Finck and makes the work discoverable through the unified Library search even when the underlying document uses a shortened or inconsistent technical filename. The record preserves the work as a bibliographic reference and places it within the…

Fischer presents Beethoven through a sequence of biographical and interpretive chapters, moving from Bonn and the early Vienna years through the Eroica, Fidelio, the meeting with Goethe, compositional method, the Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony. The book is valuable not only as a life of Beethoven but…

A detailed contemporary guide to Wagner’s music dramas and the Bayreuth Festival, including thematic and theatrical discussion from the period close to the original Wagner tradition.

Hadow’s first series links Berlioz, Schumann and Wagner to the Romantic movement and to changing ideas of musical expression. Rather than functioning as simple biographies, the essays combine historical narrative, criticism and aesthetic argument, making the book a useful witness to English views of continental Romanticism at the…

Combines Wagner biography with explanations of the major music dramas, their sources, dramatic structures and musical techniques.

Examines Tristan und Isolde as drama and music, including leitmotivic process, poetic design and Wagnerian aesthetics.

Essays on Wagner's dramatic method, mythic sources, leitmotifs and the interpretation of the music dramas.

This expanded dossier treats Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art as a substantial source on Richard Wagner. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the…

A curated dossier for The Wagner Operas by Ernest Newman. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles even…

Ferris’s volume assembles compact biographies of major German and Austro-German composers for the late nineteenth-century general reader. Its sequence helped popularize a canonical narrative running from Bach and Handel through Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantic generation and Wagner.

A curated dossier for Tristanissimo: The Authorized Biography of Heroic Tenor Lauritz Melchior by Shirlee Emmons. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both…