1904 Wagner and the Reform of the Opera

Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

The second edition of this very scarce work. 

In the publisher's original cloth binding. With a portrait frontispiece. 

This work illustrates a selection of Richard Wagner's theories and approaches to operatic melody, dramatic poetry and the reform of opera. Together with a brief biographical history of the composer and a list of his works. 

Written by pianist and music critic, Edward Dannreuther. He trained as a musician at the Leipzig Conservatoire, where he was a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles. 

With four leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear.