Complete Opera Drama (Illustrated)

A German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music. Contents Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 (1889) Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 (1889) Parsifal (1903) My Life — Volume 1 My Life — Volume 2 (1911) On Conducting (Ueber das Dirigiren): A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music Tristan and Isolda, Opera in Three Acts The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie (1910)