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%T Wagner, a Case History 
%T De buikspreker van God
%M Dutch *
%A Martin van Amerongen 
%F Stewart Spencer
%F Dominic Cakebread
%D 1983 and 1984
%C London and New York
%I J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., G. Braziller
%G ISBN 0 4600 4618 7 ; ML410.W1 A59873 1984
%X An amusing and irreverent examination first of Richard Wagner's
life and works, and secondly of how his descendants have treated his
artistic legacy.  With a short but interesting bibliography and a 
brief discography.
%O Dutch original published in 1983 by Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers,
Amsterdam.


%T Wagner : A Documentary Study
%T Wagner : sein Leben und seine Welt in zeitgenossischen Bildern und
Texten
%A Herbert Barth
%A Dietrich Mack (ed)
%A Egon Voss (ed)
%F Peter Robert John Ford
%F Mary Whittall
%D 1975
%C London
%I Thames and Hudson
%G ISBN 0 5002 7399 5 ; ML410.W1 B1853 1975b
%X Preface by Pierre Boulez.


%T The Truth about Wagner
%A Philip Dutton Hurn
%A Waverley Lewis Root
%D 1930
%C New York
%I Frederick A. Stokes Company
%G ML410.W1 H93
%X In part based on documents in the Burrell Collection.  With eleven 
illustrations in black and white.


%T Two Essays on Wagner
%A David Irvine
%D 1912
%C London
%I Watts & co
%G ML410.W1 I72 1912 
%X 1. Wagner's bad luck, an exposure of 800 errors in the authorised 
translation of Wagner's autobiography.  2. The badness of Wagner's bad
luck, a first exposure of anti-Wagnerian journalism.
%O The first of these essays was published in 1911.


%T Wagner in Exile : 1849-62
%T Richard Wagners Verbannung und Rückkehr 1849-1862
%M German *
%A Woldemar Lippert
%F Paul England
%D 1930
%C London
%I G. G. Harrap & Co.
%G ML410.W11 L4 (German)
%X Coverage of a previously little-researched part of the composer's 
life by the keeper of the principal public archives of Saxony. 
Contains previously unpublished correspondence and other documents. 
%O Original German version was published in 1927.


%T A Study of Wagner
%A Ernest Newman
%D 1974 (reprint)
%C New York
%I Vienna House
%G ISBN 0 8443 0065 9 ; ML410.W13 N5 1974
%X Newman's first book about Wagner, written while he was still
sceptical about his subject.
%O Originally published by Bertram Dobell, London in 1899. 


%T Fact and Fiction about Wagner
%A Ernest Newman
%D 1931
%C London, NY
%I Cassell and Co., Alfred Knopf
%G 
%X Newman was so incensed by Hurn and Root's 'The Truth About Wagner'
that he wrote this book in response. 

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