[398] Glasenapp, vi. 187.
[399] The opera should be studied in Breitkopf and Härtel's new edition. Former editions have been printed from the curtailed score that was generally used for performances. The Breitkopf edition reproduces the original manuscript.
[400] In Mein Leben he speaks of it being in five acts, but in the form in which we have it, it has only four.
[401] Accounts of most of these experiments will be found in Mein Leben and elsewhere. The libretti and sketches are printed in the new eleventh volume of the G.S.
[402] Mein Leben, p. 220. Wagner always intended that the Flying Dutchman should be given in one Act. It was played in this way for the first time at Bayreuth in 1901. The necessary skips in the ordinary three-act score are indicated in Breitkopf's edition, pp. 76 and 180.
[403] The overture has been altered to correspond with the altered ending of the opera. Our concert audiences need to remember that the electrifying effect of this wood-wind entry in the overture is an after-thought on Wagner's part. At some time or other he added to the score the following stage directions at the point in the final scene where the passage just quoted enters: "A dazzling glory illumines the group in the background; Senta raises the Dutchman, presses him to her breast, and points him towards heaven with hand and glance." This note is given in the Fürstner score, but not in that of Breitkopf and Härtel.
[404] Eine Mittheilung an meine Freunde, in G.S., iv. 266.
[405] Ibid., iv. 272.
[406] Eine Mittheilung an meine Freunde, in G.S., iv. 295, 297, 298, 301, 302.
[407] Ibid., iv. 328.