Orpheus in his Underwear
Harold James, 1 November 1984
My Life
by Richard Wagner, translated by Andrew Gray, edited by Mary Whittall.
Cambridge, 786 pp., £22.50, November 1983,0 521 22929 4 Show More
by Richard Wagner, translated by Andrew Gray, edited by Mary Whittall.
Cambridge, 786 pp., £22.50, November 1983,
Untimely Meditations
by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R.J. Hollingdale, introduced by J.P. Stern.
Cambridge, 256 pp., £15, December 1983,0 521 24740 3 Show More
by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R.J. Hollingdale, introduced by J.P. Stern.
Cambridge, 256 pp., £15, December 1983,
Wagner: A Case-History
by Martin vonAmerongen.
Dent, 169 pp., £8.95, September 1983,0 460 04618 7 Show More
by Martin vonAmerongen.
Dent, 169 pp., £8.95, September 1983,
“... the troubles are over. He has found the perfect woman, Cosima, wife of his young protégé Hans von Bülow, and he has found a loyal patron, the King of Bavaria. On the last page he hears of the death of his old enemy, the German-born Parisian composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. Wendelin Weissheimer, a minor German composer and Wagner groupie, provides the epitaph ... ”