[12] He was twenty-two at the time. Wagner was forty-two.
[13] Hornstein had told the story to Karl, who was furious, and insisted on sending Wagner at once a hamper of champagne.
[14] There is not a word in Mein Leben as to these borrowings.
[15] He died in 1890, twenty-one years before the publication of Mein Leben.
[16] In connection with the Paris production of Tannhäuser, &c.
[17] This, it will be remembered, had been hinted by Karl Ritter.
[18] See Zwei unveröffentlichte Briefe Richard Wagners an Robert von Hornstein, zur Erklärung der auf Robert von Hornstein bezüglichen Stellen in Wagners "Mein Leben"; herausgegeben von Ferdinand Frh. von Hornstein. Munich, 1911.
[19] Franz Lachner (1803-90) was successively conductor at Vienna, Mannheim (1834), and Munich (1836). From 1852 to 1865 he was General Musical Director at Munich.
[20] One of these appeared in the Dresden Abendzeitung of 26, 27, 28, and 29 January 1842, under the title of Bericht über eine neue Pariser Oper. The other was written for Schlesinger's Gazette Musicale, appearing in the February 27, March 13, April 24, and May 1, 1842, numbers of that journal. A translation of this article is given by Mr. Ellis in volume viii. of his English version of the Prose Works. Wagner tells us in Mein Leben (p. 248), however, that the editor of the Gazette Musicale, Edouard Monnaie, had cut out a number of passages praising Auber and belittling Rossini. The original German text of the first half of the article has been preserved in the Wahnfried archives. It was published for the first time by Julius Kapp in Der junge Wagner, and is now to be had in volume xii. of the G.S. The first two portions of the article are given in German on pp. 129 to 146. A comparison of this with Mr. Ellis's version will show the passages that have been omitted. The remainder of the article exists only in French, as it appeared in the Gazette Musicale of 24th April and 21st May. It is given in G.S., xii. 404-11.
[21] Mein Leben, pp. 248, 249. The word "friend" is put in inverted commas by Wagner himself. The passage to which he refers will be found in the Bericht über eine neue Pariser Oper, in G.S., i. 244. He there mentions 1500 francs as the sum paid by the Munich director for the libretto. In the original article in the Abendzeitung, according to Mr. Ashton Ellis, the amount was given as 3000 francs, and Lachner was referred to not as Kapellmeister Lachner, but "der brave Lachner."