Stories From Wagner (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Stories From Wagner (Classic Reprint) written by J. Walker Mcspadden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories From Wagner Richard Wagner's career extended over the bet ter part of the last century. He was born at Leip zig, May 22, 1813; he died at Venice, February 13, 1883. His whole life was a struggle, for his musi cal ideas were unlike any that had gone before. But he lived to witness a splendid triumph; and to-day his operas are produced more often than those of any other composer. The following is the order in which the operas were first given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.