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44767	Henderson, W. J. (William James)	Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work			.txt	text/plain	132625	7184	72	Wagner utilised them, surveyed the musical plan of each drama, and of important features of Wagner's later works in this opera, but for music."[5] "I was then twenty-one years of age," wrote Wagner, two acts of the music which Wagner had finished. In "Opera and Drama" Wagner set forth the principles which, according The only musical work which Wagner did in the early years at opera singers to perform such a music drama as he was about to write. This in Wagner's mind was a musical drama, in which But the early works of Wagner show his musical system in its Wagner's ideal was a drama in which music should be the works of Wagner are dramas. both dramatic and musical contrast to the story, Wagner has followed of the music of Wagner's most popular work. The last of the great music dramas of Richard Wagner began to	./cache/44767.txt	./txt/44767.txt