Wagner as Man & Artist

by Ernest Newman

[22] Mein Leben, p. 626.

[23] Mein Leben, p. 675.

[24] Briefwechsel zwischen Wagner und Liszt, ii. 25.

[25] See his letter to Uhlig of November 27, 1852.

[26] See the first chapter of his Ludwig II und Richard Wagner: Erster Teil, die Jahre 1864 und 1865. Munich, 1913.

[27] Yet Glasenapp (Das Leben Richard Wagners, ii. (2), 108) speaks of Wagner having "forced his entry" into Munich with Tannhäuser "in spite of the bitter opposition of Lachner." In dealing with Wagner's Munich days, again, Glasenapp speaks of Lachner as being "from of old an embittered opponent, whom the most obliging and amiable behaviour could not reconcile" (iv. 43).

[28] Op. cit., p. 8.

[29] Röckl, p. 12.

[30] The reader will remember that the Wesendonck catastrophe was just then drawing to a head.

[31] In the light of Wagner's own account of the affair in Mein Leben, we only regard this as a piece of fiction.