Books

  • Adorno, Theodor (1981). In Search of Wagner.
  • Bartlett, Rosamund (2007). Wagner and Russia.
  • Berger, William (1998). Wagner without Fear.
  • Burbidge, Peter and Sutton, Richard, eds. (1979). The Wagner Companion.
  • Cabaud, Judith (2017). Mathilde Wesendonck: Isolde’s Dream.
  • Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (2014).
  • Conrad, Peter (2011). Verdi and/or Wagner.
  • Dahlhaus, Carl (1979). Richard Wagner’s Music Dramas. Mary Whittall.
  • DiGaetani, John (2009). Outside the Ring (Essays).
  • DiGaetani, John (2006). Inside the Ring (Essays).
  • Furness, Raymond (2013) Richard Wagner.
  • Gregor-Dellin, Martin (1983). Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century. J. Maxwell Brownjohn.
  • Grey, Thomas ed. (2009). Richard Wagner and His World (Bard Music Festival Series).
  • Grey, Thomas (1995). Wagner’s Musical Prose.
  • Gutman, Robert (1968). Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind, and His Music.
  • Holman, James (2007). Wagner Moments.
  • Horowitz, Joseph (1994). Wagner Nights: An American History.
  • Karnes, Kevin C. (2013). A Kingdom Not of this World: Wagner, the Arts and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna.
  • Katz, Jacob, (1986). The Darker Side of Genius: Richard Wagner’s Anti-Semitism.
  • Kerman, Joseph (1988). Opera as Drama.
  • Kreuzer, Gundula (2018). Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera.
  • Lloyd-Jones, Hugh. (1983). Blood for the Ghosts: Classical Influences in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
  • Magee, Bryan (2001). The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy.
  • Magee, Bryan, (1988). Aspects of Wagner.
  • Mann, Thomas, (1985). Pro and Contra Wagner.
  • May, Thomas (2004). Decoding Wagner.
  • Millington, Barry (2012). The Sorcerer of Bayreuth.
  • Millington, Barry, (1997). Articles on Richard Wagner . . . and on specific operas in New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
  • Millington, Barry (1984). The Master Musicians: Wagner.
  • Newman, Ernest, (1976). The Life of Richard Wagner. 4 volumes.
  • Newman, Ernest (1949). The Wagner Operas.
  • Osborne, Charles (2004). The Opera Lover’s Companion.
  • Quinn, Richard (2013). Richard Wagner: The Lighter Side.
  • Ross, Alex (2020). Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (scheduled for release on September 15, 2020)
  • Spotts, Frederic (1994). A History of the Wagner Festival.
  • Steinberg, Michael (2018). The Trouble with Wagner.
  • Syer, Katherine (2014). Wagner’s Visions.
  • Tanner, Michael (1995). Wagner.
  • Taruskin, Richard (2009). Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music.
  • Taylor, Ronald (1979). Richard Wagner: His Life, Art and Thought.
  • Watson, Derek (1981). Richard Wagner: A Biography.
  • Young, Julian (2005). Schopenhauer.

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