After several years of thorough research, our exhaustive biography of Richard Wagner brings together most of the information known to date on the life of the man who composed the Music of the Future. The source material comes namely from the composer’s own writings and from correspondence, as well as the information gathered from the written testimonies of the people closest to him. Divided in nine periods, each of these sections thereby provides the complete timeline of the composer’s life, year by year.
DRESDEN AND THE GREAT ROMANTIC OPERAS (1842-1849)
THE YEARS OF EXILE AND WANDERING (1850-1863)
MUNICH AND TRIBSCHEN (1864-1870)
THE BAYREUTH YEARS (1871-1876)
MATURITY, PARSIFAL, VENICE (1877-1883)
A BIOGRAPHY (SECTION I)