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    Parsifal Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera
    Parsifal Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera
    Parsifal Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera
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    Parsifal Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera

    By H. R. (Hugh Reginald) Haweis

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Parsifal Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera - H. R. (Hugh Reginald) Haweis

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Parsifal, by H. R. Haweis

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      Title: Parsifal

      Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera

      Author: H. R. Haweis

      Release Date: January 4, 2007 [eBook #20264]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARSIFAL***

      E-text prepared by David Newman, V. L. Simpson, Chuck Greif,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net/c/)

      Richard Wagner

      PARSIFAL

      Story and Analysis of

      Wagner's Great Opera

      By

      H. R. HAWEIS

      Author of My Musical Memories, Music and Morals, etc.

      FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

      NEW YORK AND LONDON

      1905

      NOTE—

      This story and analysis of Parsifal was

      first published as a part of Mr. Haweis'

      well-known work, My Musical Memories.

      The interest it has excited

      seems to justify its republication at

      this time in a separate volume.

      F. & W. Co.

      Published, February, 1904

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      WAHNFRIED

      I visited Bayreuth on the 24th of July, 1883, and attended two crowded performances of Wagner's last work, Parsifal. In the morning I went into the beautiful gardens of the Neue Schloss. On either side of a lake, upon which float a couple of swans and innumerable water-lilies, the long parklike avenue of trees are vocal with wild doves, and the robin is heard in the adjoining thickets. At my approach the sweet song ceases abruptly, and the startled bird flies out, scattering the pale petals of the wild roses upon my path. I follow a stream of people on foot, as they move down the left-hand avenue in the garden of the Neue Schloss, which adjoins Wagner's own grounds.

      Some are going—some are coming. Presently I see an opening in the bushes on my left; the path leads me to a clump of evergreens. I follow it, and come suddenly on the great composer's grave. All about the green square mound the trees are thick—laurel, fir, and yew. The shades fall funereally across the immense gray granite slab; but over the dark foliage the sky is bright blue, and straight in front of me, above the low bushes, I can see the bow-windows of the dead master's study—where I spent with him one delightful evening in 1876.

      I can see, too, the jet of water that he loved playing high above the hedge of evergreen. It lulls me with its sound. Wahnfried! Wahnfried! it seems to murmur. It was the word written above the master's house—the word he most loved—the word his tireless spirit most believed in. How shall I render it? Dream-life! dream-life! Earth's illusion of joy!

      Great spirit! thy dream-life here is past, and, face to face with truth, rapt from the fickle and the frail, for thee the illusion

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