{"product_id":"richard-wagner-my-life-9780521229296","title":"Richard Wagner: My Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis reprint is of the first English paperback edition of Richard Wagners autobiography. This is a primary document of enormous importance for all Wagner enthusiasts  being virtually the sole source of information of the composers childhood and youth. Written for Wagners second wife  Cosima  and his patron  King Ludwig II  the autobiography runs from the composers birth up to the eve of his fifty-first birthday in 1864. Given the intended readership and the circumstances of its composition it is hardly surprising that Wagner should either omit or distort facts from time to time: he does not linger over previous affairs  he portrays his relationship with his first wife  Minna  as a good deal more distant than it really was and he plays down his involvement in the Dresden uprising of 1849. Despite all this  the book presents a panoramic view of Wagners times and contemporaries and offers a unique perspective on the operas themselves. This translation is of the complete edition published in Munich in 1963 and based on the manuscript in the Wagner Archives in Bayreuth. Wagners slips of memory are noted  as are references to obscure names and events.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931879473205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0521229294","price":345.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780521229296.jpg?v=1794218410","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/richard-wagner-my-life-9780521229296","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}