Life Of Richard Wagner 1900 PDF Download

"Wagner, His Life and Works is one of the first sympathetic biographies of Wagner, written at a time when his revolutionary works were regarded with ridicule and hostility by a majority of his contemporaries. The reader will follow Richard Wagner in his career, from the conventional early works to the late masterworks, which created a new musical language. This volume tells of the struggle Wagner fought to win a fair hearing for his works, as well as the way these innovative works were received by the public. Wagner's stormy personal life, from his scandalous elopement with the married daughter of the great Franz Lizt to his vocal philosophical battles with both friends and enemies, is also chronicled. Here the reader will find a contemporary portrait of Wagner written by Adolphe Jullien (1845-1932), a noted music critic and tireless champion of what was then regarded as modern music. About Jullien and this book on Wagner, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians states: "(This) substantial biography of Wagner was for its time a monument of accurate and erudite information and is on the whole a just review of his works...This Paganiniana edition adds numerous illustrations to the original wealth of caricatures and illustrations, thereby making the text of even greater value. It will appeal to the general reader, who will be both amused and informed, and to the musical scholar, who will find it a rare source of period information."--Publisher's description.