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  • Chapter 24 - Wagner’s Apprenticeship

  • from IV - Life, Language, and the Ancient World
  • Edited by David Trippett, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Wagner in Context
    Published online:
    14 March 2024
    Print publication:
    14 March 2024, pp 239-248

  • Summary

    Wagner’s early compositional training is seldom examined, perhaps because of his unambiguous claim in 1851 to be an autodidact, taught only by ‘life, art and myself’. Yet Wagner’s work with Christian Müller and particularly with Theodor Weilig on early works and in abstract skills (notably counterpoint) reveal various dependencies. Wanger’s shifting attitude towards this period of training sits alongside his choice of more public mentors, in Beethoven and Weber, whose works he studied and arranged.