Dover Opera Scores The Flying Dutchman in Full Score, (Paperback)

With this great early opera, Wagner achieved the first true representation of his mature style as a German Romantic composer.

Reproduced directly from the limited 1896 Weingartner edition that incorporated Wagner' s revisions.

In The Flying Dutchman, finished in 1841 and first presented at Dresden in 1843, Wagner achieved the first true representation of his mature style as a German Romantic composer.

As in his later works, the opera is based on legend, with a simple outline and a small number of profoundly significant characters.

There is also a greater reliance on the use of leitmotivs than in his previous operas, and a textual and musical unity new to the composer' s work.