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The Ring

Introduction


References
Appendix I
Appendix I I

Key Colour Coding

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I would be grateful for donations of any size, small or large, to help defray the cost (1) of maintaining this website, (2) and to finance my past and present research which produced my book posted here, Volume One of "The Wound That Will Never Heal," and my forthcoming revision of Volume One (to be submitted for publication), and completion of Volume Two on Wagner's six other canonic operas and music-dramas. I sacrificed at least seven years of paid employment and incurred debts to complete this project, and am currently unemployed, so I thank you in advance for any financial help you can provide. Your friend, Paul Heise.

 

Sources

(including abbreviations employed in the anthology and also in The Wound That Will Never Heal)

• Feuerbach, Ludwig:

1. [TDI] Thoughts on Death and Immortality. Originally published in 1830. Translated by James A. Massey. University of California Press, 1980.

2. [EOC] The Essence of Christianity. Originally published in 1841. Translated by George Eliot [the novelist]. Harper Torchbooks. Harper and Row, Publishers. New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London, 1957.

3. [PPF] The Principles of the Philosophy of the Future. Originally published in 1843. Translated by Manfred Vogel. Hackett Publishing Company, 1986.

4. [LER] Lectures on the Essence of Religion. Originally published in 1848. Based on book published in the early 1840’s entitled The Essence of Religion, which was intended to fill in some gaps left by The Essence ofChristianity. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Harper & Row, Publishers. New York, Evanston, and London, 1967.

• Porges, Heinrich: [WWR] Wagner Rehearsing the ‘Ring’. Trans. by Robert L. Jacobs; Cambridge 1983. Cambridge Univ. Press. Written June through August 1876. Wagner commissioned Porges to record what Wagner said and did during the rehearsals for the Ring’s premier, as a permanent record of his intentions.

• Spencer, Stewart: [WR] Wagner Remembered. Edited and Annotated by Stewart Spencer. London and New York. Faber and Faber, 2000. An anthology of reminiscences of Wagner ranging from his early childhood in until his death in 1883, including many conversations.

• Wagner, Cosima [CD] Cosima Wagner’s DIARIES. In two volumes. Ed. Martin Gregor-Dellin and Dietrich Mack. Trans. By Geoffrey Skelton. New York and London. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1978. Written by Cosima from 1869 through 1883.