“My life” by Richard Wagner is both a valuable document of the era and an eyewitness evidence. Attention to small details, a description of domestic details, the characteristics of numerous contemporaries – from a blacksmith or a baker from a parallel street to the royal persons and the greatest artists of their time – this makes it possible to see the life of Europe of the 19th century in all its diversity. But of course, the very figure of a brilliant composer, whose work truly split the world in two: the unconditional supporters of Wagner and the equally unconditional opponents, acts in the forefront. The personality of such a gigantic scale should inevitably cause both contemporaries and descendants the most burning interest.
The new edition of Wagner’s memoirs is a real event in the cultural life of Russia. The translation of 1911-1912 was subjected to new editing and sparkled with the German original with the maximum correction of all shortcomings and errors, and is also equipped with a detailed reference apparatus. All this does N …
Author
Wagner Richard
Editor
Zalesskaya M.K.
Translator
Efron G.A., Nevazhina V.M., Ostrovskaya A. Ya.
Publisher
Veche, 2014
Series
Memoirs
Genre
Culture and art figures
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