Wagner by John F. Runciman

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I have been compelled to leave out much interesting matter--Wagner's
trips to London, his difficulties in getting his theatre built, the
financial failure of Bayreuth at first, its success afterwards. Nor can
I say much about the man. He was certainly an overwhelming personality.
In his train followed such really great musicians as Liszt, von Buelow,
Tansig, and others. Richter was his copyist and disciple. He crushed all
originality out of Jensen, and, doubtless, others. Kings and Princes
were his very humble servants. And at Bayreuth he had round him a pack
of fools to do his bidding, as well as a number of intelligent
mediocrities, who wrote books and printed newspapers about him, inspired
by the mediocrity's ordinary ambition to become known through attaching
one's self to a famous man.

The fighting is over and done; there remain to us the glorious music
dramas. After more than twenty years Wagner's fame is still growing, and
it seems impossible that it will ever wane or that he will not, in
far-off times, be numbered with the greatest of the great. "He sleeps,
or wakes, with the enduring dead."

WAGNER'S WORKS

OPERAS.

The Fairies (Die Feen).
Das Siebererbot.
Rienzi.
The Flying Dutchman.
Tannhaeuser.
Lohengrin.
Tristan.
The Mastersingers.
The Nibelung's Ring, which includes:
The Rhinegold,
The Valkyrie,
Siegfried,
The Dusk of the Gods.
Parsifal.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A large number of prose essays.
Some concert overtures, including the "Faust."
The Love-feast of the Apostles.
Several songs.
Kaisermarsch.
Huldigung's march.

MINIATURE SERIES OF MUSICIANS

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HAYDN. By JOHN F. RUNCIMAN.
MENDELSSOHN. By VERNON BLACKBURN. Third Edition.
MOZART. By EBENEZER PROUT, Professor of Music
Dublin University, B.A., Mus.D.
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[Transcriber's Note: the following words are possibly misprints
but have been faithfully reproduced from the original 1913 edition:

"Wesendonek" ("Wesendonck"?)

"Waltrante" ("Waltraute"?)

"Tansig" ("Tausig"?)

"Siebererbot" ("Liebesverbot"?)

]

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