Lorenz, Alfred (Ottokar)

ALFRED (OTTOKAR) LORENZLORENZ, (OTTOKAR) ALFRED(OTTOKAR) ALFRED LORENZ [* 1868-† 1939] Wagner's music dramas present analysts with formidable challenges, no less so today than in the early 1920s, when Alfred Lorenz completed his intensive study of the Ring. In all, four volumes were published under the title Das Geheimnis der Form bei Richard Wagter (1924-33). Treating in turn Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal, each includes an…