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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 |