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• Wagner, Richard:

1. [BB] The Diary of Richard Wagner: The Brown Book 1865-1882. Presented and annotated by Joachim Bergfeld. Trans. By G. Bird. London: Cambridge University Press, 1980. The passages included in my anthology were written between 8/19/65 and 4/9/82. This is Wagner’s personal diary.

2. [CWL] Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt. Trans. by Francis Hueffer. New York: Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1969. Originally published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1897.

3. [ML] My Life. Trans. Andrew Gray. Ed. Mary Whittall. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Wagner’s autobiography covers the years 1813-1864.

4. [RWDF] Richard Wagner’s Letters to his Dresden Friends, Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Heine. Trans.by J.S. Shedlock: New York: Vienna House, 1972. Originally published in New York by Scribner and Welford in 1890.

5. [RWMW] Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck. Trans. William Ashton Ellis. New York: Vienna House, 1972. Originally published in New York by Charles Scribner & Sons in 1905. Wagner’s letters to M. Wesendonck were written between 1852 and 1875.

6. [PW] Richard Wagner’s Prose Works. Eight Volumes. Second Edition. Trans. William Ashton Ellis. Reprinted in St. Claire Shores, Michigan by Scholarly Press in 1972. Translation originally published in London by Kegan, Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., Ltd., in 1895. These writings range from 1833 through 1883.

7. [SLRW] Selected Letters of Richard Wagner. Trans. and Ed. By Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington. New York and London. W.W. Norton & Company, 1987. The letters in this anthology range from 1832 through 1883.