Richard Wagner: Stories and Essays (English and German Edition)

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.