Richard Wagner

Michael Saffle is Professor of Music and Humanities in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech.

Using This Research Guide

Acknowledgments

I. Introducing Wagner
II. Surveying Wagner: Compendia and Other Survey Studies
III. Researching Wagner: Reference Works of Various Kinds
IV. The Documentary Legacy
V. Wagner’s Life and Character
VI. Wagner as Composer: Studies in Techniques, Styles, and Influences
VII. Wagner as Music Dramatist 1: Surveys Studies
VIII. Wagner as Music Dramatist 2: The Earlier and Unfinished Operas and Music dramas
IX. Wagner as Music Dramatist 3: Holländer, Lohengrin, and Tannhäuser
X. Wagner as Music Dramatist 4: Meistersinger, Parsifal, Tristan, and the Ring
XI. Wagner as Instrumental and Vocal Composer and Arranger
XII. Performing Wagner: Studies of Performance Practices, Productions, and Media Issues
XIII. Wagner as Poet, Prose Writer, Philosopher, and Revolutionary
XIV. Criticizing Wagner: Wagner’s Critics and the Wagner Reception
XV. Wagner and Culture, Past and Present: Literature, Psychology, and the Visual Arts
XVI. Wagner and Anti-Semitism
XVII. After Wagner: Bayreuth, the Festivals, and Wagner’s Descendents
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