Excerpt from A Guide to Parsifal: The Music Drama of Richard Wagner Its Origin, Story and Music Little book can make small claim to origi nality. It IS an attempt to assemble, for the inter est and guidance of listeners to Parsifal, some of the most important facts about the sources, the origin, the characters and the poetical and musical structure of that work. The author acknowledges a special indebtedness to Maurice Kufferath's book on Parsifal, to Hans von Wolzogen's Guide through the Music of Parsifal; in less measure to H. E. Krehbiel's Studies in the Wag nerian Drama, and to W. Henderson's biog raphy of the master. For permission to use por tions of his articles published in The N ew York T imes, he desires also to express his thanks to the publisher of that journal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Guide to Parsifal: The Music Drama of Richard Wagner Its Origin, Story and Music This little book can make small claim to originality. It is an attempt to assemble, for the interest and guidance of listeners to "Parsifal," some of the most important facts about the sources, the origin, the characters and the poetical and musical structure of that work. The author acknowledges a special indebtedness to Maurice Kufferath's book on "Parsifal," to Hans von Wolzogen's "Guide through the Music of Parsifal;" in less measure to H. E. Krehbiel's "Studies in the Wagnerian Drama," and to W. J. Henderson's biography of the master. For permission to use portions of his articles published in The New York Times, he desires also to express his thanks to the publisher of that journal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This short but penetrating book, shows us how Wagner achieves this profound work, explaining the story, its musical ideas, and their coming together into a sublime whole which gives us the musical equivalent of forgiveness and closure