Wagner as Man & Artist

by Ernest Newman

[146] See, for example, Weingartner's tragic-comic account of his experiences, in his Akkorde.

[147] It is quoted in Kapp's Richard Wagner und die Frauen, p. 90, but without date or name of addressee. It is simply given as "addressed to a lady friend."

[148] Wagner, however, conducted some concerts at Zürich for a fee.

[149] Richard Wagner an Eliza Wille, p. 123.

[150] Mein Leben, p. 731.

[151] "I left Baden to fill up my time with a little trip to Zürich, where I again tried to get a few days' rest in the Wesendoncks' house. The idea of helping me did not occur to my friends, though I told them frankly of the position I was in." Mein Leben, p. 857.

[152] "Whereupon," he characteristically remarks, "I could not resist sending him a reply pointing out the wrongness of this." Mein Leben, p. 865.

[153] Mein Leben, pp. 866, 867.

[154] Richard Wagner an Eliza Wille, pp. 74, 75.

[155] Familienbriefe, pp. 189, 190. He recurs to the same idea in a letter to his sister Cäcile Avernarius of 30th December 1852: Familienbriefe, p. 194. See also the letter to Uhlig of December 1849, and other passages.