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Title: Parsifal
A Drama by Wagner

Author: Retold by Oliver Huckel

Release Date: March 19, 2004 [EBook #11633]

Language: English

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PARSIFAL: A DRAMA BY WAGNER

RETOLD BY OLIVER HUCKEL

BOOKS BY DR. HUCKEL

MENTAL MEDICINE
Some practical suggestions from a spiritual
standpoint
(Cloth, $1.00 net)

THE MELODY OF GOD'S LOVE
An interpretation of the Twenty-Third Psalm
(Cloth, 75 cts. net)

WAGNER'S MUSIC DRAMAS
Retold in English Verse

PARSIFAL
TANNHAeUSER
LOHENGRIN
RHEINGOLD
WALKUeRE

(Each, cloth, 75 cents net)

THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

[Illustration]

Parsifal

A MYSTICAL DRAMA BY RICHARD WAGNER RETOLD IN THE SPIRIT OF THE BAYREUTH
INTERPRETATION BY

Oliver Huckel

MDCCCCX

1903

T.Y. Crowell & Co.

Composition and plates by D.B. Updike

To my Wife

IN LOVING MEMORY OF BAYREUTH DAYS

O.H.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PART I
The Coming of Parsifal

PART II
The Tempting of Parsifal

PART III
The Crowning of Parsifal

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Parsifal in Quest of the Holy Grail

Monsalvat, the Castle of the Grail

The Communion of the Holy Grail

Parsifal healing King Amfortas

Parsifal revealing the Holy Grail

ILLUSTRATED BY FRANZ STASSEN

FOREWORD

The Parsifal of Richard Wagner was not only the last and loftiest work
of his genius, but it is also one of the few great dramas of modern
times,--a drama which unfolds striking and impressive spiritual
teachings. Indeed, Parsifal may be called Richard Wagner's great
confession of faith. He takes the legend of the Holy Grail, and uses it
to portray wonderfully and thrillingly the Christian truths of the
beauty, the glory, and the inspiring power of the Lord's Supper, and the
infinite meaning of the redeeming love of the Cross. He reveals in this
drama by poetry and music, and with a marvellous breadth and depth of
spiritual conception, this theme (in his own words): "The founder of the
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