Richard Wagner

My Life (Volume I) Richard Wagner

CONTENTS Part I. 1813-1842 Childhood and Schooldays Musical Studies Travels in Germany (First Marriage) Paris: 1839-42 Part II. 1842-1850 (Dresden) 'Rienzi' 'The Flying Dutchman' Liszt, Spontini, Marschner, etc. 'Tannhaüser' Franck, Schumann, Semper, Gutzkow, Auerbach 'Lohengrin' (Libretto) Ninth Symphony Spohr, Gluck, Hiller, Devrient Official Position. Studies in Historical Literature 'Rienzi' at Berlin Relations with the Management, Mother's Death, etc. Growing Sympathy with Political Events, Bakunin The May Insurrection Flight: Weimar, Zürich, Paris, Bordeaux, Geneva, Zürich