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.
- ISBN10 0812691466
- ISBN13 9780812691467
- Publish Date 12 December 1973 (first published April 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 187
- Language English