CONTENTS

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I.Early Promise

II.The Morning of Life

III.The New Path

IV.Heroic Symphony

V.Fidelio

VI.The Eternal Feminine

VII.Victory from Defeat

VIII.Meeting with Goethe

IX.Optimistic Trend

X.At the Zenith of His Fame

XI.Methods of Composition

XII.Sense of Humor

XIII.Missa Solemnis

XIV.Ninth Symphony

XV.Capacity for Friendship

XVI.The Day's Trials

XVII.Last Quartets

XVIII.In the Shadows

XIX.Life's Purport

WAGNER'S INDEBTEDNESS TO BEETHOVEN