My Life

by Richard Wagner

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306804816
• ISBN13: 9780306804816
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wagner tells his own story.

Monumental both in creativity and egotism, Richard Wagner drafted an autobiography that is amazingly accurate with not too many exaggerations by the author. If one wants the composer's insights on the various encounters he has when bringing his music to life, this is one book you must read. At times it is tediously detailed but the "devil is in the details." It is impossible to understand the man and his world without reading this personal insight. He was, above all other things, one of the foremost musical geniuses that changed the face of opera forever. The consummate Wagner student must, at some time in his study read this book, cover to cover.