ABSTRACT

This volume brings our story down to 1843, an important era in Richard Wagner’s Life, with his entry, as composer, of two successful operas, upon a so-called "practical" career at one of the principal German theatres.

part |2 pages

Prænatalia. (1769-1813.)

chapter |4 pages

Introductory

chapter I|10 pages

Family History

chapter II|10 pages

Adolf Wagner

chapter III|9 pages

Friedrich Wagner

chapter IV

Ludwig Geyer

part |2 pages

Childhood and Youth. (1813-1833.)

chapter I|7 pages

The Year 1813

chapter II|9 pages

Removal to Dresden

chapter III|10 pages

Geyer’s Last Years

chapter IV|10 pages

Richard Wagner as Child

chapter V|14 pages

The Kreuzschüler

chapter VI|10 pages

Leipzig

chapter VII|13 pages

Leipzig Court-Theatre, and July-Revolution

chapter VIII|14 pages

The Student of Music

chapter IX|22 pages

The C Major Symphohy

part |2 pages

Strayings and Wanderings. (1833-1843.)

chapter I|13 pages

Wurzburg: “Die Feen.”

chapter II|16 pages

“Das Liebesverbot.”

chapter III|19 pages

Magdeburg

chapter IV|7 pages

Rosalie Wagner

chapter V|15 pages

Königsberg

chapter VI|19 pages

Riga

chapter VII|16 pages

“Rienzi, Der Letzte Der Tribunen.”

chapter VIII|9 pages

From Riga to Paris

chapter IX|22 pages

First Parisian Disappointments

chapter X|15 pages

Completion of “Rienzi.”

chapter XI|33 pages

“Der Fliegende HolläNder.”

chapter XII|20 pages

Dresden