CONTENTS Preface to the First German Edition PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Preface to the First Edition THE PERFECT WAGNERITE PRELIMINARY ENCOURAGEMENTS THE RING OF THE NIBLUNGS THE RHINE GOLD WAGNER AS REVOLUTIONIST THE VALKYRIES SIEGFRIED BACK TO OPERA AGAIN SIEGFRIED AS PROTESTANT PANACEA QUACKERY, OTHERWISE IDEALISM DRAMATIC ORIGIN OF WOTAN THE LOVE PANACEA NOT LOVE, BUT LIFE ANARCHISM NO PANACEA SIEGFRIED CONCLUDED NIGHT FALLS ON THE GODS PROLOGUE A WAGNERIAN NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY FORGOTTEN ERE FINISHED WHY HE CHANGED HIS MIND WAGNER'S OWN EXPLANATION THE PESSIMIST AS AMORIST THE MUSIC OF THE RING THE CHARACTERIZATION THE OLD AND THE NEW MUSIC THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE BAYREUTH BAYREUTH IN ENGLAND WAGNERIAN SINGERS
CONTENTS
Preface to the First German Edition
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
Preface to the First Edition
THE PERFECT WAGNERITE
PRELIMINARY ENCOURAGEMENTS
THE RING OF THE NIBLUNGS
THE RHINE GOLD
WAGNER AS REVOLUTIONIST
THE VALKYRIES
SIEGFRIED
BACK TO OPERA AGAIN
SIEGFRIED AS PROTESTANT
PANACEA QUACKERY, OTHERWISE IDEALISM
DRAMATIC ORIGIN OF WOTAN
THE LOVE PANACEA
NOT LOVE, BUT LIFE
ANARCHISM NO PANACEA
SIEGFRIED CONCLUDED
NIGHT FALLS ON THE GODS
PROLOGUE
A WAGNERIAN NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY
FORGOTTEN ERE FINISHED
WHY HE CHANGED HIS MIND
WAGNER'S OWN EXPLANATION
THE PESSIMIST AS AMORIST
THE MUSIC OF THE RING
THE CHARACTERIZATION
THE OLD AND THE NEW MUSIC
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE
BAYREUTH
BAYREUTH IN ENGLAND
WAGNERIAN SINGERS
In reading through this German version of my book in the Manuscript of my friend Siegfried Trebitsch, I was struck by the inadequacy of the merely negative explanation given by me of the irrelevance of Night Falls On The Gods to the general philos