STORIES OF THE WAGNER OPERA.

BY
H.A. GUERBER,

Author of
“MYTHS OF GREECE AND ROME,”“MYTHS OF NORTHERN LANDS,”“CONTES ET LÉGENDS,”etc.

NEW YORK:
DODD, MEAD, AND COMPANY.
1905.

Copyright 1895,
By Dodd, Mead and Company.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

Dedicated to my Friend,
M.A. McC.

PREFACE.

These short sketches, which can be read ina few moments' time, are intended to givethe reader as clear as possible an outline of thegreat dramatist-composer's work.

The author is deeply indebted to ProfessorG.T. Dippold, to Messrs. Forman, Jackman,and Corder, and to the Oliver Ditson Company,for the poetical quotations scattered throughoutthe text.

CONTENTS.

	Page
Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes	7
The Flying Dutchman	23
Tannhäuser	38
Lohengrin	56
Tristan and Ysolde	72
The Master-Singers of Nuremberg	88
The Nibelung's Ring.—Rheingold	105
The Walkyrie	120
Siegfried	138
Dusk of the Gods	154
Parsifal	172

ILLUSTRATIONS.

	Page
Richard Wagner	Frontispiece
Banishment of Rienzi	7
Senta	23
Tannhäuser and Venus	38
Ortrud kneeling before Elsa	56
Tristan's Death	72
Walther crowned by Eva	88
The Rhine Maidens	105
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STORIES OF THE WAGNER OPERA.

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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