| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 512. Ap. ‘03. 100w. |
Wagner, Richard. Selections from the music dramas of Richard Wagner; arranged for the piano by Otto Singer. $1.50. Ditson.
A late addition to the “Musician’s library.” The excerpts are not difficult for the amateur and include representative parts of eleven operas from “Rienzi” to “Parsifal.”
| + + + | Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 90w. |
“The Wagner book is altogether the most satisfactory collection of excerpts from the works of that musical Titan that we have ever seen. The selection is wise and comprehensive. Mr. Aldrich’s preface is all that such a foreword should be.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 90w. |
Wagner, Richard. Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W. Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.
“The world is indebted to Mathilde Wesendonck for two great achievements—she inspired the composition of ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ and she thereby forced the composer to defer the completion of the ‘Ring des Nibelungen’ until his powers were in their full maturity. This remarkable collection of letters, first published after the death of the lady, which took place in 1902, is another fruit of their relationship. What the nature or that relationship was, we do not propose to discuss.... Its only importance for us consists in its artistic results.”—Lond. Times.
“No lover of the greatest modern master of music should fail to read them.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
| + + + | Critic. 47: 216. S. ‘05. 1050w. |