Family Letters of Richard Wagner

by Richard Wagner and William Ashton Ellis

Book Overview

William Ashton Ellis (1852-1919) abandoned his medical career in order to devote himself to his Wagner studies. Best known for his translations of Wagner's prose works and of Carl Friedrich Glasenapp's multi-volume biography of the composer, Ellis published in 1911 this English translation of Wagner's Familienbriefe, spanning the years 1832-74. An inveterate letter writer, Wagner was the youngest-but-one of ten children and Ellis describes the character...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108078605
• ISBN13: 9781108078603
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"