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

Author: H. R. Haweis

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Language: English

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PARSIFAL

Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera

by

H. R. HAWEIS

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

[Illustration: RICHARD WAGNER]

[Illustration: Funk and Wagnalls Symbol]

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

PAGE

WAHNFRIED 5

PARSIFAL 10

ACT I 18

ACT II 41

ACT III 55

WHEN THE CURTAIN FELL 67

ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING
PAGE
Portrait of Richard Wagner _Frontispiece_

Parsifal and Gurnemanz Passing Through
the Ravine (Act I) 30

The Great Hall of the Holy Grail
(Act I) 36

Parsifal Entering the Grail Castle in
Triumph (Act III) 62

WAHNFRIED

I visited Bayreuth on the 24th of July