Recommendation for Wagner biography

[gradus]

Cosima's diaries are close to biography and fascinating although a long read. RW's 'My Life' is well worth digging out too.

[Flosshilde]

Cosima's diaries are close to biography and fascinating although a long read. RW's 'My Life' is well worth digging out too.

They are both of dubious veracity - by which I don't mean that they didn't write them, but that they exagerated, minimised & omitted rather more than is usual even in autobiographies. Cosima, for example, couldn't bring herself to believe (or acknowledge) that RW's relations with other women were anything more than platonic.

[Petrushka]

I have an 1892 edition of Wagner as I Knew Him by Ferdinand Praeger on my shelves bought years ago at a book fair. I believe this book is of doubtful authenticity but can't remember where I got this information. Perhaps someone (Roehre?) can offer a comment.