Volume 20, Number 13 · August 9, 1973
Stravinsky: Problems for Biographers
By Robert Craft
Reviewing a recent life of Wagner, W.H. Auden writes that 'on principle, I object to biographies of artists, since I do not believe that knowledge of their private lives sheds any significant light on their works…. However, the story of Wagner's life is absolutely fascinating, and it would be so if he had never written a note.'
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