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The Story of Bayreuth: As Told in the Bayreuth Letters (Classic Reprint)
The Story of Bayreuth As Told in the Bayreuth Letters - Classic Reprint Author:Richard Wagner THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL IDEA In order to be able to see the life work of Richard Wagner in its true perspective it is necessary always to keep in mind Bayreuth, where the spirit of the great composer is ever revived by fresh artistic deeds. " Richard Wagner in Bayreuth " - the master and his life work - is the only pr... more »oper and comprehensive formula by which to measure the events which took place here. Richard Wagner is an art phenomenon which it would be as difficult to explain away as a Beethoven, a Goethe, or a Schiller. It is to the latter that he is the most clearly related; he is the musical counterpart of the " greatest German of them all," whose art, like Wagner's, sent its roots down deep into German national feeling and character.
Table of Contents
The Origin and Development of the; Bayreuth Festival Idea i; Bayreuth 17; Tour of Inspection 111; Preliminary Rehearsals 189; The First Bayreuth Festival 234; Ways and Means 280; Parsifal 318; ILLUSTRATIONS; Richard Wagner Frontispiece; The Festival Theatre at Bayreuthopp p 86; Wagner and his Friends" 128; Dr Hans Richter« 198; A sketch by Adolph Menzel of Wagner at Bayreuth " 236 Frau Cosima Wagner« 318
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