item: #1 of 18
          id: 14441
      author: Runciman, John F.
       title: Wagner
        date: None
       words: 24252
      flesch: 72
     summary: Ring_ Wagner fairly let himself go in the matter of gorgeous, riotous colour in depicting Nature--the earth, the waters, clouds, and the working of the elements. Nietzsche, in one of his many quarrelsome diatribes, says Wagner _determined_ to be a musician and made himself one by sheer will-power.
    keywords: act; away; brangaena; brunnhilda; drama; dutchman; isolda; life; lohengrin; love; man; music; opera; ring; scene; sea; second; siegfried; siegmund; song; tannhäuser; theme; time; tristan; wagner; wotan; years
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        item: #2 of 18
          id: 15141
      author: Fischer, George Alexander
       title: Beethoven, a character study Together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven
        date: None
       words: 68080
      flesch: 67
     summary: Like most men of genius Beethoven had little regard for money, and until middle age was reached, never thought of saving any. As before stated Beethoven did not take to teaching.
    keywords: age; art; beethoven; case; character; composer; composition; concert; count; day; death; doubt; family; form; friends; genius; goethe; good; haydn; house; humor; idea; karl; left; letter; life; man; mass; master; mind; minor; money; mozart; music; musician; nature; nephew; new; opera; opus; orchestra; people; period; piano; prince; quartets; schindler; subject; symphony; thought; time; vienna; von; wagner; way; work; world; years; young
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        item: #3 of 18
          id: 16431
      author: Runciman, John F.
       title: Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas
        date: None
       words: 114657
      flesch: 66
     summary: We, knowing the kind of music Wagner had in his mind when he wrote the libretto of _Lohengrin_, can easily understand Schumann's dismay when this scene was read to him: nothing of the sort had been composed before. Feen, Die_, 42, 47, 48, 50, 52, 56, 60-63. 72, 86, 93, 137 Feuerbach, Ludwig, 232, 408 Fischer, Wilhelm, 76, 126, 205, 206, 220, 231 _Flying Dutchman, The_, 65, 66, 80, 81, 127, 128, 137, 170, 187, 219, 243, 356, 385; analysis and criticism, 94-120; produced at Zurich, 208 _Gazette Musicale, La_, 70, 75 Gewandhaus Concerts, 33, 45, 46 Geyer, Cäcilie, 14, 16, 30, 72 Geyer, Ludwig, 4, 6-14; marries Frau Wagner, 8; his death, 14 Geyer, goldsmith at Eisleben, 11, 17 Glasenapps _Life of Wagner_, 8, 16, 19, 39, 66, 167 Gluck, 416, 417; his _
    keywords: act; art; away; beethoven; brünnhilda; comes; composer; course; day; days; death; drama; dresden; dutchman; end; fact; feeling; form; german; geyer; good; human; idea; isolda; life; lohengrin; long; love; man; mastersingers; matter; means; melody; moment; music; musician; opera; paris; period; phrase; point; power; richard; richard wagner; rienzi; ring; sachs; scene; sea; second; sense; senta; set; siegfried; siegmund; song; sort; stage; story; tannhäuser; theatre; theme; thing; thought; time; tristan; valkyrie; wagner; walther; way; weber; words; work; world; wotan; writing; years
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        item: #4 of 18
          id: 16840
      author: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
       title: Stories of the Wagner Opera
        date: None
       words: 37735
      flesch: 67
     summary: Simultaneously almost with Brangeane's cry, Kurvenal rushes upon the scene with drawn sword, imploring his master to fly; but ere this advice can be followed King Mark and the traitor Melot appear, closely followed by all the royal hunting party. While the lovers, clasped in each other's arms, unite in a duet of passionate love, the vessel is made fast to the shore, where the royal bridegroom is waiting, and it is only when Brangeane throws the royal mantle over Ysolde's shoulders, and when Kurvenal bids them step ashore, that the lovers suddenly realise that their brief dream of love is over.
    keywords: brunhilde; day; death; elsa; fair; gods; grail; hand; heart; holy; king; life; love; magic; mime; opera; people; rienzi; ring; siegfried; sieglinde; siegmund; song; sword; tannhäuser; thee; thou; thy; time; tristan; wagner; world; wotan; young; ysolde
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        item: #5 of 18
          id: 18138
      author: Kobbé, Gustav
       title: The Loves of Great Composers
        date: None
       words: 25618
      flesch: 70
     summary: Frontispiece Mozart at the Age of Eleven Constance, Wife of Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Countess Therese von Brunswick Beethoven at Heiligenstadt Félix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Fanny Hensel, Sister of Mendelssohn Cécile, Wife of Mendelssohn The Mendelssohn Monument in Leipsic Frédéric Chopin [missing from book] Countess Potocka The Death of Chopin Robert Schumann Robert and Clara Schumann, in 1847 Clara Schumann at the Piano The Schumann Monument in the Bonn Cemetery Franz Liszt Liszt at the Piano The Princess Carolyne, in her Latter Years at Rome The Altenburg, Weimar, where Liszt and Carolyne lived Richard Wagner Cosima, Wife of Wagner Richard and Cosima Wagner Richard and Cosima Wagner entertaining in their Home Wahnfried, Liszt and Hans von Wolzogen Mozart and His Constance Nearly eight years after Mozart's death his widow, in response to a request from a famous publishing house for relics of the composer, sent, among other Mozartiana, a packet of letters written to her by her husband. When Liszt was producing Lohengrin, aiding Wagner pecuniarily, and cheering him in his exile, Cosima Liszt was a young girl in Paris, where she, her elder sister Blandine (afterward the wife of Emile Ollivier, who became the war minister of Napoleon the Third) and her brother Daniel lived with Liszt's mother.
    keywords: beethoven; chopin; clara; composer; constance; cosima; countess; cécile; day; death; delphine; father; felix; genius; letter; life; liszt; long; love; mother; mozart; music; princess; schumann; therese; time; wagner; wife; woman; years
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        item: #6 of 18
          id: 27265
      author: Brownell, Gertrude Hall
       title: The Wagnerian Romances
        date: None
       words: 129443
      flesch: 82
     summary: Radiant life!--the last good words ever exchanged between them!--they tear apart, without sorrow or foreboding. He comes a little more awake to protest that death cannot destroy such love as theirs, that love is stronger than death, is eternally living, that all that could die in death would be the disturbing things which now prevent him from being always with her, whereas were they to die,--inseparable,--to all eternity one,--nevermore to awake,--nevermore to know fear,--nameless, close enfolded in love,--belonging singly to themselves,--they should live wholly for love!...
    keywords: alberich; arms; beckmesser; brangaene; brünnhilde; child; cries; day; death; dream; earth; elsa; end; eyes; face; father; fear; fire; forth; god; gods; gold; good; gunther; hagen; hand; head; heart; hero; high; home; honour; house; isolde; joy; king; know; life; light; loge; look; love; man; master; mime; moment; mother; music; parsifal; place; point; power; rest; rhine; ring; sachs; ship; siegfried; siegmund; sleep; song; spear; stands; sword; thing; thought; time; tristan; truth; turns; voice; walther; way; words; world; wotan
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        item: #7 of 18
          id: 31526
      author: Nohl, Ludwig
       title: Life of Wagner
        date: None
       words: 39374
      flesch: 65
     summary: In the course of time Wagner dominated the stage in a manner which had not been witnessed since Lohengrin. His Birth--The Father's Death--His Mother Remarries--Removal to Dresden--Theatre and Music--At School--Translation of Homer--Through Poetry to Music--Returning to Leipzig--Beethoven's Symphonies--Resolution to be a Musician--Conceals this Resolution--Composes Music and Poetry--His Family distrusts his Talent--Romantic Influences--Studies of Thoroughbass--Overture in B major--Theodor Weinlig--Full Understanding of Mozart--Beethoven's Influence--The Genius of German Art--Preparatory Studies ended 9-22 CHAPTER II. STORM AND STRESS.
    keywords: art; artist; beethoven; day; death; form; friends; german; grail; grand; heart; human; king; life; lohengrin; long; love; master; mind; music; nation; nature; new; nibelungen; opera; paris; parsifal; people; power; siegfried; soul; spirit; stage; theatre; time; wagner; words; work; world; years
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        item: #8 of 18
          id: 35128
      author: Tapper, Thomas
       title: Wagner : The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Little Plays
        date: None
       words: 2443
      flesch: 85
     summary: How long did Wagner study music? 4. [Illustration: No. 4] LISZT [Illustration: No. 5] SCHUMANN [Illustration: No. 6] VERDI [Illustration: No. 7] CHOPIN Wagner's father died when he was only six months old, and the boy was brought up by his mother and his step-father, who was very kind to him.
    keywords: book; illustration; richard; wagner
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        item: #9 of 18
          id: 44767
      author: Henderson, W. J. (William James)
       title: Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work
        date: None
       words: 132625
      flesch: 68
     summary: Riga was a more prosperous town than either Magdeburg or Königsberg and at first Wagner, delighted with the higher salary, set to work with evident pleasure. What embryonic works Wagner left is not known.
    keywords: act; action; art; bayreuth; book; brünnhilde; character; composer; conductor; day; death; der; development; die; drama; dresden; dutchman; elsa; end; form; friends; genius; german; gods; good; grail; hand; heart; hero; house; ideas; isolde; king; legend; letter; life; liszt; little; lohengrin; london; love; man; master; mind; motive; munich; music; music drama; musical; nature; new; nibelungen; night; opera; original; paris; parsifal; people; performance; period; place; plan; play; poem; power; production; public; richard wagner; rienzi; ring; sachs; saga; scene; score; second; seq; set; siegfried; song; stage; story; sword; tannhäuser; text; theatre; theme; thought; time; tristan; und; von; wagner; walther; way; wife; work; world; wotan; years; young
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        item: #10 of 18
          id: 46982
      author: Gautier, Judith
       title: Richard Wagner and His Poetical Work, from "Rienzi" to "Parsifal"
        date: None
       words: 25778
      flesch: 75
     summary: The latter, however, was not of much advantage to him, as young Wagner devoted himself mainly to musical studies. Our quick intelligence, so light, so mobile, so disposed to mockery, deprives us of that quality so indispensable to the comprehension of master works--simplicity.
    keywords: amfortas; arms; art; cries; day; death; gods; gold; grail; gurnemanz; heart; hero; isolde; king; kundry; life; love; man; master; parsifal; sachs; soul; thee; thou; time; tristan; voice; wagner; work; world
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        item: #11 of 18
          id: 47080
      author: Gautier, Judith
       title: Wagner at Home
        date: None
       words: 48708
      flesch: 74
     summary: All the _motifs_ of the first and third Acts which have to do with a ship were passed in review; The _Rhinegold_ also had its turn, and at last Wagner cried: We have exhausted all my aquatic music! Once more Wagner retired.
    keywords: act; away; blue; cosima; day; drawing; evening; eyes; face; fact; french; friend; good; hand; house; idea; king; lake; light; little; lucerne; madam; man; master; moment; munich; music; new; orchestra; order; people; piano; place; point; rheingold; richard; richard wagner; richter; rienzi; room; royal; servais; theatre; things; thought; time; tribschen; villiers; voice; wagner; white; work
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        item: #12 of 18
          id: 5144
      author: Wagner, Richard
       title: My Life — Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 140645
      flesch: 59
     summary: He soon made great friends with a young actor, and lived on terms of great intimacy with him. Princess Caroline had one of her severe nervous attacks, and in order to preclude the approach of the painful hallucination by which she was tormented at such times, her daughter Marie was obliged to read to her all through the night in a voice deliberately raised a good deal above its natural pitch.
    keywords: account; acquaintance; act; attention; beginning; bulow; company; concert; conductor; course; day; days; dresden; duke; effect; evening; fact; family; friend; german; good; grand; great; hand; help; herr; home; hotel; house; idea; impression; journey; karl; left; letter; life; liszt; lohengrin; man; matter; means; mind; minna; mme; morning; music; new; night; occasion; opera; orchestra; order; paris; people; performance; place; point; position; present; princess; public; regard; result; return; ritter; room; set; society; state; stay; tannhauser; theatre; things; thought; time; tristan; vienna; visit; von; way; wife; work; year; young; zurich
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        item: #13 of 18
          id: 51710
      author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
       title: Thoughts out of Season, Part I David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth.
        date: None
       words: 62292
      flesch: 54
     summary: In this respect, however, all shame has vanished--from the public as well as from the Master's mind: he is allowed, not merely to cross himself before the greatest and purest creations of German genius, as though he had perceived something godless and immoral in them, but people actually rejoice over his candid confessions and admission of sins--more particularly as he makes no mention of his own, but only of those which great men are said to have committed. And now ye presume that ye are going to be permitted, tamquam re bene gesta, to praise such men!
    keywords: art; artist; book; case; culture; day; fact; faith; feeling; form; future; german; history; kind; language; life; like; love; master; means; men; mind; music; nature; nietzsche; order; people; philistine; power; present; purpose; question; reason; regard; soul; spirit; strauss; style; things; thought; time; wagner; way; words; work; world; writer
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        item: #14 of 18
          id: 5197
      author: Wagner, Richard
       title: My Life — Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 221764
      flesch: 57
     summary: As Luettichau had to communicate these reprimands to me, it was natural that our intercourse at such times should hardly be of a nature to restore our mutual satisfaction with each other. It seemed right that the only true immortality should be that of sublime deeds and great works of art.
    keywords: account; acquaintance; art; attention; audience; berlin; brother; case; character; circumstances; company; conductor; course; court; day; days; death; desire; devrient; director; dresden; effect; enthusiasm; evening; events; experience; fact; family; fate; french; friend; general; german; good; hand; help; home; hope; house; idea; impression; influence; interest; journey; kind; king; law; leave; left; leipzig; letter; life; love; magdeburg; making; man; management; manner; matter; means; mind; minna; moment; morning; mother; music; nature; news; night; occasion; opera; opinion; orchestra; order; overture; paris; people; performance; place; point; position; present; production; public; regard; return; rienzi; room; royal; school; score; second; set; singers; sister; spite; state; study; subject; success; symphony; tannhauser; theatre; theatrical; things; thought; time; town; view; visit; von; way; wife; work; world; year; young
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        item: #15 of 18
          id: 54426
      author: Henderson, W. J. (William James)
       title: Modern Musical Drift
        date: None
       words: 46352
      flesch: 69
     summary: They forget that when the emotional conditions of the scene pointed to melodious music Wagner was frankly melodic, and that he wrote as lyrically as Schubert himself, though naturally constructing his melodies on a larger frame. Certainly such music is not for the masses.
    keywords: act; art; bach; beethoven; brangäne; brünnhilde; character; composer; composition; day; death; development; drama; form; gods; good; heart; human; isolde; italian; life; loge; love; man; master; mind; modern; music; nature; new; opera; oratorio; orchestra; parsifal; power; scene; set; siegfried; song; soul; stage; story; strauss; style; text; things; thought; time; tone; tristan; wagner; work; world; wotan; young
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        item: #16 of 18
          id: 5652
      author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
       title: Thoughts out of Season, Part I
        date: None
       words: 62322
      flesch: 53
     summary: In this respect, however, all shame has vanished--from the public as well as from the Master's mind: he is allowed, not merely to cross himself before the greatest and purest creations of German genius, as though he had perceived something godless and immoral in them, but people actually rejoice over his candid confessions and admission of sins--more particularly as he makes no mention of his own, but only of those which great men are said to have committed. And now ye presume that ye are going to be permitted, tamquam re bene gesta, to praise such men!
    keywords: art; artist; book; case; culture; day; fact; faith; feeling; form; future; german; history; kind; language; life; like; love; master; means; men; mind; music; nature; nietzsche; order; people; philistine; power; present; purpose; question; reason; regard; soul; spirit; strauss; style; things; thought; time; wagner; way; words; work; world; writer
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        item: #17 of 18
          id: 6443
      author: Frost, William Henry
       title: The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas
        date: None
       words: 56343
      flesch: 86
     summary: Then he tried to entice good knights to come to his castle, and if any knight came, if any stayed in the enchanted halls to eat or drink or dance or play, that knight was lost forever. For all these many years, while other men were living happy lives and growing old, and their children and their grand-children were growing old too, the angry winds and waves have driven him about and have given him no rest; now this woman could save him, but his love tells him that he ought to save her instead.
    keywords: daughter; dwarf; father; fire; girl; gods; good; grail; hero; king; knight; love; people; princess; sword; tell; things; time; way; woman
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        item: #18 of 18
          id: 7834
      author: Hight, George Ainslie
       title: Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama
        date: None
       words: 55610
      flesch: 66
     summary: Persuaded that the motives and characters of men must be known before their actions can be understood, and that these can only be revealed in music, he has given us in _Tristan_ music such as no mortal ear ever heard before or since; but action there is little or none. But Wagner always treats it with such consummate grace and refinement that it ceases to be repulsive and appears in its own uncorrupted beauty, as in the _Venus_ music and in the flower-maiden scene in _Parsifal_.
    keywords: art; artist; beauty; beethoven; brangäne; character; day; death; die; drama; end; english; expression; footnote; form; german; great; isolde; italian; king; know; language; life; love; man; marke; melody; men; mind; moment; motive; movement; music; natural; nature; people; poetry; rhythm; scene; second; sense; song; stage; story; subject; text; things; thought; time; tristan; und; wagner; way; words; work; world
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