Richard Wagner's Prose Works (Wagner, Richard)

		Movements/Sections 8 volumes Composition Year 1834-1883 (Wagner's original writings) Genre Categories Autobiographies; Writings; Biographies; Music history; Music criticism; German language

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 Volume 1 (The Art-Work of the Future, etc.)
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William Ashton Ellis (1852–1919)

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1892.

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Misc. Notes:

See misc. comments at bottom of page for table of contents for all eight volumes.

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 Volume 2 (Opera and Drama)
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Second Edition (impression).

Translator:

William Ashton Ellis (1852–1919)

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1900.

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 Volume 3 (The Theatre)
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William Ashton Ellis (1852–1919)

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1907. Second Impression.

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 Volume 4 (Art and Politics)
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Translator:

William Ashton Ellis (1852–1919)

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1895.

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Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Pages xv to xviii of the preface were torn in Cornell's original so they have been replaced with pages converted to black and white tif files from jpeg2000 color images (Microsoft scans). Unfortunately, the page sizes differ.

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 Volume 5 (Actors and Singers)
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Translator:

William Ashton Ellis (1852–1919)

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1895.

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New York: Broude Brothers, 1966.

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 Volume 6 (Religion and Art)
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Translator:

William Ashton Ellis (1852–1919)

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1897.

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 Volume 7 (In Paris and Dresden)
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Translator:

William Ashton Ellis (1852–1919)

Publisher Info.:

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1898.

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New York: Broude Brothers, 1966.

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 Volume 8 (Posthumous, etc.)
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William Ashton Ellis (1852–1919)

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1899.

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General Information

Work Title	Richard Wagner's Prose Works
Alternative Title

Composer	Wagner, Richard
Movements/Sections	8 volumes
Year/Date of Composition	1834-1883 (Wagner's original writings)
First Publication	1892-1899 (Ashton's translation)
Language	German(Wagner's original writings) English (Ashton's translation)
Dedication	Cosima Wagner
Piece Style	Romantic

Misc. Comments

Table of Contents

Volume 1: The Art-Work of the Future, etc.

1. Author's Introduction to the Collected Edition of His Writings

2. Autobiographical Sketch

3. Art and Revolution

4. The Art-Work of the Future

5. Wieland the Smith

6. Art and Climate

7. A Communication to My Friends

Volume 2: Opera and Drama

1. Opera and Drama

Volume 3: The Theatre

1. Author's Introduction

2. On the "Goethe-Stiftung"

3. A Theatre at Zurich

4. On Musical Criticism

5. Judaism in Music

6. Mementoes of Spontini

7. Homage to L. Sphor and W. Fischer

8. Gluck's Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis"

9. On the Performing of "Tannhäuser"

10. Remarks on Performing "The Flying Dutchman"

11. Explanatory Programmes

i. Beethoven's "Heroic Symphony"

ii. Beethoven's Overture to "Coriolanus"

iii. Overture to "Die fliegende Holländer"

iv. Overture to "Tannhäuser"

v. Prelude to "Lohengrin"

12. On Franz Liszt's Symphonic Poems

13. Epilogue to The "Nibelung's Ring"

14. Preface to The "Ring" Poem

15. A Letter to Hector Berlioz

16. "Zukunftsmusik" ("Music of the Future")

17. The Vienna Opera-House

Volume 4: Art and Politics

1. To the Kingly Friend (Poem)

2. On State and Religion

3. German Art and German Policy

4. Appendices:

i. The Vaterlandsverein Speech

ii. Letter to Von Lüttichau

5. What is German?

6. A Music-School for Munich

7. Ludwig Schnorr of Carolsfeld

8. Notices:

i. Introduction

ii. W. H. Riehl

iii. Ferdinand Hiller

iv. A Remembrance of Rossini

v. Eduard Devrient

9. About Conducting

10. Three Poems

i. Rheingold

ii. On the Completion of Seigfried

iii. August 25th, 1870

Volume 5: Actors and Singers

1. To the German Army before Paris (Poem)

2. A Capitulation

3. Reminiscences of Auger

4. Beethoven

5. The Destiny of Opera

6. Actors and Singers

7. The Rendering of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

8. Letters and Minor Essays:

i. Letter to an Actor

ii. A Glance at the German Operatic Stage of To-day

iii. Letter to an Italian Friend on the Production of "Lohengrin" at Bologna

iv. To the Burgomaster of Bologna

v. To Friednich Neitzsche

vi. On the Name "Musikdrama"

vii. Prologue to a Reading of "Die Götterdämmerung" before a Select Audience in Berlin

9. Bayreuth

i. Final Report on the Fates and Circumstances that Attended the Execution of the Stage-Festival-Play "Der Ring Des Nibelungen" down to the Founding of Wagner-Societies

ii. The Festival-Playhouse at Bayreuth, with an Account of the Laying of its Foundation-Stone

Volume 6: Religion and Art

1. Spohr's "Jessonda" at Leipzig

2. Minor Bayreuth Papers

i. To the Presidents of Wagner-Vereins

ii. Proposed Bayreuth "School"

iii. Introduction to First Number of the Bayreuther Blätter

iv. Introduction to a Work of Hans Von Wolzogen's

v. Postponement of "Parsifa"

vi. Introduction to the Year 1880

vii. Announcement of "Parsifal" Performance

viii. Introduction to a Work of Count Gobineua's

3. Modern

4. Public and Popularity

5. The Public in Time and Space

6. Retrospect of the Stage-Festivals of 1876

7. Shall We Hope?

8. On Poetry and Composition

9. On Operatic Poetry and Composition

10. On the Application of Music to the Drama

11. Against Vivisection

12. Religion and Art

i. What Boots this Knowledge?

ii. "Know Thyself"

iii. Hero-dom and Christendom

13. End of the Patronat-Verein

14. The Stipendiary Fund

15. "Parsifal" at Bayreuth

16. A Youthful Symphony

17. Letter to H. Von Stein

18. The Human Womanly (Fragment)

Volume 7: In Paris and Dresden

1. Author's Introduction

2. "Das Liebesverbot"

3. A German Musician in Paris

i. A Pilgramage to Beethoven

ii. An End in Paris

iii. A Happy Evening

iv. On German Music

v. Pergolesi's"Stabat Mater"

vi. The Virtuoso and the Artist

vii. Du Métier de Virtuose

viii. The Artist and Publicity

ix. Rossini's "Stabat Mater"

4. On the Overture

5. Der Freischütz in Paris

i. To the Paris Public

ii. Report to Germany

6. Halévy's "Reine de Chypre"

7. Author's Introduction to Vol. II of the Ges. Schr.

8. Weber's Re-interment

i. Report

ii. Speech

9. Beethoven's Choral Symphony at Dresden

i. Report

ii. Programme

10. The Wibelungen

11. The Nibelungen-Myth

12. Tercentenary Toast

13. The German National Theatre

Volume 8: Posthumous, etc.

1. "Seigfried's Death"

2. Discarded

i. On German Opera

ii. Pasticcio

iii. Bellini

iv. Parisian Amusements

v. Parisian Fatalities for the German

vi. Letters from Paris, 1841

vii. Halévy and "La Reine de Chypre"

viii. Jottings on the Ninth Symphony

ix. Artist and Critic

x. Greeting from Saxony to the Viennese

xi. On E. Devrient's "History of German Acting"

xii. Theatre-Reform

xiii. Man and Established Society

xiv. The Revolution

xv. Invitation to the Production of "Tristan in Munich"

3. Posthumous

i. "The Saracen Woman"

ii. Sketch for "The Apostles' Love-Feast"

iii. "Jesus of Nazareth"

iv. Sketches and Fragments