Table of Contents

Volume 1: List of illustrations; Preface; Postscript to the preface; Acknowledgements; Summary bibliography; Part I. The Early Years (1813–1840): 1. The Wagner family; 2. Wagner's mother; 3. Boyhood; 4. Beethoven; 5. Studiosus musicae; 6. The first three operas; 7. Rienzi; Part II. The First Creative Period (1841–1848): 8. Der Fliegende Holländer; 9. Tannhäuser; 10. Hofkapellmeister in Dresden; 11. Germanic myth and Greek Tragedy; 12. Lohengrin; 13. Money troubles; Part III. The Revolutionary (1848–1852): 14. Revolutionary ideas; 15. Wieland der Schmied; 16. From heroic opera to mythic drama; Part IV. Der Ring des Niebelungen (I) (1853–1857): 17. The vision of La Spezia; 18. The myth becomes music; 19. The London inferno; 20. The Ring crisis; Part V. Tristan and Die Meistersinger (1857–1868): 21. In Asyl; 22. Venice and Lucerne; 23. Tannhäuser in Paris; 24. Odyssey; Notes to volume 1. Volume 2: 25. Munich; 26. Die Meistersinger; Part VI. Der Ring des Niebelungen (II) (1868–1877): 27. From Tribschen to Bayreuth; 28. The first festival; 29. Nietzche in Bayreuth; 30. The nation's thanks; Part VII. Parsifal (1877–1883): 31. 'My Farewell to the World'; 32. La lugubre gondola; Appendices; Chronological summary of Wagner's life and work; List of works; Correspondence of Richard and Cosina Wagner; Notes to volume 2; Bibliography; Index to volumes 1 and 2.

Promotional Information

Originally published in 1981, this is a one-volume paperback edition of Dr von Westernhagen's distinguished biography of Nietzche.