The ten volumes of Wagner's complete works are often impenetrable. This is a collection of nine short pieces by Wagner, selected for their readability and the light they shed on his development as a composer. They include the short stories about an unsucessful Beethoven-worshipping composer, which Wagner first published in Paris, the essays On Opera Libretti and Composition, The Niebelungen - World History as Told in Saga and What is German?, and the notorious and influential antisemitic essay.
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The ten volumes of Wagner's complete works are often impenetrable. This is a collection of nine short pieces by Wagner, selected for their readability and the light they shed on his development as a composer. They include the short stories about an unsucessful Beethoven-worshipping composer, which Wagner first published in Paris, the essays On Opera Libretti and Composition, The Niebelungen - World History as Told in Saga and What is German?, and the notorious and influential antisemitic essay.
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