Patricia Braun: list of books on music for disposal

1 Wagner collection:

Anderson, Robert: Wagner: a concertgoers companion. London, Clive Bingley, 1980.

Barth, Henrik:International Wagner Bibliography, 1956-1960.

Bayreuth, Edition Musica Bayreuth, 1961. (Bibliography covers English, French and German writings)

Donington, Robert: Wagner’s Ring and its symbols: the music and the myth.London, Faber, 1963

Dumesnil, Rene: Wagner. Paris, Editions Rieder, 1924 (in French)

Gal, Hans: (trans Hans-Hubert Schonzeler) Richard Wagner.

London, Gollancz, 1976

Granville Barker, Frank: The Flying Dutchman a guide to the opera. London, Barrie & Jenkings, 1979

Goldman, A & Sprinchorn, E (trans H Ashton Ellis): Wagner on music, a compendium of Richard Wagner’s works. New York, Dutton, 1964

Gutman, Robert: Richard Wagner: the man, his mind and his music. London, Penguin, 1971

Hueffer, Francis: Richard Wagner. London, Sampson Lowe, Marston (undated)

Newman, E: Life of Richard Wagner., New York, Knopf, 1960. 4 vols

Wagner. London, Novello, 1940. Novello’s biographies of great musicians series

Wagner as man and artist. New Yorl, Vintage Books, 1960

Rayner, Robert M: Wagner and Die Meistersinger. London, Oxford University Press, 1940

Schneider, Marcel:Wagner. Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1960 (in French)

Turner, W J: Wagner, London, Duckworth, 1948 (great loves series)

Wagner, Richard: My life. London, Constable, 1963. (English translation).

Diary of Richard Wagner 1865-1882: the brown book. Trans George Bird. London, Gollancz, 1980

Richard Wagner to Mahilde Wesendonk: Tagesblatter und Brifen 1853-1871. Berlin, Verlag von Alexander Buncker, 1904. 3^rd impression, (in German).

Letters of Richard Wagner: the Burrell Collection ed John Burk. London, Gollancz, 1951

Wagner commemorative issue: Opera Quarterly, vol 1, no 3 1983. . University of North Carolina Press

Wagner 1976: A celeebration of the Bayreuth Festival. London, Wagner Society, 1976

Zuckerman, Wlliott: The first hundred years of Wagner’s Tristan. New York & London, Columbia University Press, 1964.

2 Other books on music: music criticism and interpretation

Hanslick, Eduard: Vienna’s golden years of music 1850-1900 (translated and edited by Henry Pleasants). London, Gollancz, 1951.

Shaw, George Bernard (ed Eric Bentley): Shaw on music: a selection from his musical criticism. New York, Doubleday, 1955

3 Individual composers

Fisher, Hans Conrad & Kock, Erich: Ludwig van Beethoven. London, Macmillan,1970

Grove, George: Beethoven and his nine symphonies. London, Novello & OUP, 1896

Radcliffe, Philip: Beethoven’s string quartets. London, Hutchinson,1965

Flower, Newman: Handel: his personality and his times. London, Panther, 1959

Sitwell,Sacheverell: Liszt. New York, Dover, 1967

De La Grange, H-L: Mahler, volume 1. London, Gollancz, 1974.

Moricke, Eduard (translated by Leopold von Loewenwtein-Wertheim): Mozart’s journey to Prague. London, John Calder, 1957

Turner, W J (revised and edited by Chrisstopher Raeburn): Mozart. London, University paperbacks, 1965

Mozart’s letters (translated by Emily Anderson, edited and introduced by Eric Blom. London, Penguin, 1956

Jackson, Stanley: Monsieur Butterfly, the story of Puccini. London, W H Allen, 1974

Einstein, Alfred (translated by David Ascoli): Schubert. London, Panther, 1971

The correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal (translated by Hanns Hammelmann & Ewald Osers, introduction by Edward Sackville-West). London, Collins, 1961

Osborne, Charles: Complete operas of Verdi, a critical guide.London, Pan, 1973

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