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Title: Stories of the Wagner Opera

Author: H. A. Guerber

Release Date: October 9, 2005 [EBook #16840]

Language: English

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[Illustration: RICHARD WAGNER.]

STORIES OF THE WAGNER OPERA.

BY

H.A. GUERBER,

Author of

"MYTHS OF GREECE AND ROME," "MYTHS OF NORTHERN LANDS,"
"CONTES ET LEGENDS," etc.

NEW YORK:
DODD, MEAD, AND COMPANY.
1905.

_Copyright 1895_,
BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY.

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

Dedicated to my Friend,
M.A. McC.

PREFACE.

These short sketches, which can be read in a few moments' time,
are intended to give the reader as clear as possible an outline
of the great dramatist-composer's work.

The author is deeply indebted to Professor G.T. Dippold, to
Messrs. Forman, Jackman, and Corder, and to the Oliver Ditson
Company, for the poetical quotations scattered throughout
the text.

CONTENTS.
Page

Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes 7
The Flying Dutchman 23
Tannhaeuser 38
Lohengrin 56
Tristan and Ysolde 72
The Master-Singers of Nuremberg 88
The Nibelung's Ring.--Rheingold 105
The Walkyrie 120
Siegfried 138
Dusk of the Gods 154
Parsifal 172

ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page

Richard Wagner Frontispiece
Banishment of Rienzi 7
Senta 23
Tannhaeuser and Venus