Download or read book The New Grove Wagner written by John Deathridge and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a concise . . . account of Wagner's life by John Deathridge and . . . a treatment of Wagner's music, aesthetics, and individual operas and music dramas by Carl Dahlhaus which is a tour de force. --Joseph Kerman, New York Review of Books