My Life, by Richard Wagner
Contents
Part I. 1813-1842
Childhood and Schooldays |
Musical Studies |
Travels in Germany (First Marriage) |
Paris: 1839-42 |
Part II. 1842-1850 (Dresden)
‘Rienzi’ |
‘The Flying Dutchman’ |
Liszt, Spontini, Marschner, etc. |
‘Tannhäuser’ |
Franck, Schumann, Semper, Gutzkow, Auerbach |
‘Lohengrin’ (Libretto) |
Ninth Symphony |
Spohr, Gluck, Hiller, Devrient |
Official Position. |
Studies in Historical Literature |
‘Rienzi’ at Berlin |
Relations with the Management, Mother’s Death, etc. |
Growing Sympathy with Political Events, Bakunin |
The May Insurrection |
Flight: Weimar, Zürich, Paris, Bordeaux, Geneva, Zürich |