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Glasenapp, C. F.

 
9781451004847: The Life of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

To tell the truth, that delay is entirely due to a too obstinate attempt to abide by the plan sketched out in my preface to Volume I.: had I come earlier to my recent decision, these chapters would have long since lain at the readers mercy; for, with exception of the Supplemental Notes, they were ready for type by last July. But Herr Glasenapp ssecond volume had taken us down (in the German) to the beginning of 1853 private publication of the poem of Der Ring des Nibelungen and I was doing my best to keep fairly in step with him. However, as from about the seventh of the present set of chapters I had allowed myself considerably greater freedom, alike of exposition and construction, the work ran away with me at last; so that, by the time the major portion of my manuscript was actually in the printers hands, I made the embarrassing discovery that this volume threatened to extend to some 150 to 200 pages longer than its predecessor. Accordingly there was nothing for it, but to break off at an earlier epoch than that selected for the purpose by Herr Glasenapp. Luckily such an epoch presented itself quite naturally with Richard Wagner sremoval A -N yf- rL V. (--- .- .
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