Dictated to his wife Cosima at the request of King Ludwig II, Wagner's autobiography recounts his revolutionary youth, exiles, debts, and the making of his operas up to 1864. Candid, self-mythologizing, and gossip-rich, it is one of the most revealing self-portraits any major composer ever left.
Sources for Richard Wagner — My Life (Mein Leben)
Richard Wagner — My Life (Mein Leben) in Autobiography & Confession
Held in the Autobiography & Confession chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
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- Augustine — Confessions (397)
- Peter Abelard — Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes) (1132)
- Benvenuto Cellini — The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself (1563)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau — The Confessions (1782)
- Benjamin Franklin — The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791)
- Edward Gibbon — Memoirs of My Life and Writings (1796)
- Frederick Douglass — Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
- Henry David Thoreau — Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854)
- Harriet Jacobs — Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
- Booker T. Washington — Up from Slavery (1901)
- Helen Keller — The Story of My Life (1903)