Life of Richard Wagner

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Louis Nohl. Life of Richard Wagner

Life of Richard Wagner. Louis Nohl

Life of Richard Wagner

PREFACE

I. 1813-1831. WAGNER’S EARLY YOUTH

II. 1832-1841. STORM AND STRESS

III. 1842-1849. REVOLUTION IN LIFE AND ART

IV. 1850-1861. EXILE

V. 1862-1868. MUNICH

VI. 1869-1876. BAIREUTH

VII. 1877-1882. PARSIFAL

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George P. Upton

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It happened one day that he heard the Ninth symphony at a performance of the Conservatory, whose concerts were always splendidly and carefully executed, and, as before, it stirred his inmost soul. Once more his genius came to his rescue. He felt intuitively—what we now know with historical certainty—that this work was born of the same spirit which bore Faust, and thus in him also this “ever restless spirit seeking for something new” was called into being and activity. The overture to Faust, in reality the prelude of a Faust symphony, tells us in tones of mighty resolve that his power to do and to will still lived, and would not yield till it had performed its part. This was toward the close of the year 1840.

“The God, who in my breast resides,

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