Wagner as I Knew Him

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Ferdinand Praeger. Wagner as I Knew Him

Wagner as I Knew Him

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. 1813–1821

CHAPTER II. 1822–1827

CHAPTER III. 1822–1827. Continued

CHAPTER IV. LEIPZIC, 1827–1831

CHAPTER V. 1832–1836

CHAPTER VI. 1836–1839

CHAPTER VII. EIGHT DAYS IN LONDON. 1839

CHAPTER VIII. BOULOGNE, 1839

CHAPTER IX. PARIS, 1839–1842

CHAPTER X. PARIS, 1839–1842. Continued

CHAPTER XI. DRESDEN, 1842–1843

CHAPTER XII. 1843–1844

CHAPTER XIII. 1845

CHAPTER XIV. 1848

CHAPTER XV. 1849–1851

CHAPTER XVI. 1850–1854

CHAPTER XVII “JUDAISM IN MUSIC.”

CHAPTER XVIII. 1855

CHAPTER XIX. 1855. Continued

CHAPTER XX. 1855–1856

CHAPTER XXI. ZURICH, 1856

CHAPTER XXII. 1857–1861

CHAPTER XXIII. LETTERS FROM 1861–1865

CHAPTER XXIV. 1865–1883

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Ferdinand Praeger

Published by Good Press, 2019

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It was not in climbing only that Richard excelled. He was known as the best tumbler and somersault-turner of the large Dresden school. Indeed, he was an adept in every form of bodily exercise; and as his animal spirits never left him, he still performed boyish tricks even when nearing threescore and ten. The roof of the Kreuzschule was not infrequently referred to by me, and when Wagner proposed some venturesome undertaking, I would say, “You are on the roof again.”

“Ah, but I shall get safely down again, too,” was the answer, accompanied with his pleasant boyish laugh.

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