In reading through this German version of my book in the Manuscript of my friend Siegfried Trebitsch, I was struck by the inadequacy of the merely negative explanation given by me of the irrelevance of Night Falls On The Gods to the general philosophic scheme of The Ring.
That explanation is correct as far as it goes; but, put as I put it, it now seems to me to suggest that the operatic character of Night Falls On The Gods was the result of indifference or forgetfulness produced by the lapse of twenty-five years between the first projection of the work and its completion. Now it is clear that in whatever other ways Wagner may have changed, he never became careless and he never became indifferent. I have therefore inserted a new section in which I show how the revolutionary history of Western Europe from the Liberal explosion of 1848 to the confused attempt at a socialist, military, and municipal administration in Paris in 1871 (that is to say, from the beginning of The Niblung's Ring by Wagner to the long-delayed completion of Night Falls On The Gods), demonstrated practically that the passing away of the present order was going to be a much more complicated business than it appears in Wagner's Siegfried. I have therefore interpolated a new chapter which will perhaps induce some readers of the original English text to read the book again in German.
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Last edited by AgentSapphire
April 8, 2024 | History
This Dover edition is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the fourth edition (1923).
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English
Showing 10 featured editions. View all 56 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
01 |
bbbb
|
02 |
aaaa
|
03 |
zzzz
|
04 |
bbbb
|
05 |
bbbb
|
06 |
bbbb
|
07 |
bbbb
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
08 |
bbbb
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
09 |
bbbb
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
10
The perfect Wagnerite: a commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs
1899, H.S. Stone and Company
in English
|
bbbb
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?April 8, 2024 | Edited by AgentSapphire | merge authors |
June 17, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
November 13, 2021 | Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten | person |
August 8, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Merge works |
December 9, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |