Author:Richard Wagner

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Richard Wagner
(1813–1883)

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German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called); unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works

Works

Der fliegende Holländer (1843) a facsimile of an 1893 arrangement of the overture by John Philip Sousa
Der Ring des Nibelungen (1848)
Tristan und Isolde (1859) [1890] (transcription project)

Works about Wagner

Nietzsche contra Wagner: Documents of a Psychologist (1888), by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Anthony Mario Ludovici
Richard Wagner in Bayreuth (1909), by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Anthony Mario Ludovici
“VI. To Richard Wagner,” from Poems of Sidney Lanier (1884) by Sidney Lanier, edited by Mary Day Lanier
“The Death of Richard Wagner”, in A Century of Roundels (1883) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
"Wagner, Wilhelm Richard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Wagner, Wilhelm Richard," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"Wagner, Richard," by Edward George Dannreuther in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (v. 4, pp. 346−374), (ed.) by George Grove, London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. (1900)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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