[306] Mein Leben, p. 175.
[307] Mein Leben, p. 179.
[308] He had put aside his comic opera Die glückliche Bärenfamilie, as the performing of this "Musik à la Adam" would only have still further tightened his connection with the frivolous theatrical world about him.
[309] Mein Leben, pp. 210, 211.
[310] Le Freischütz, in G.S., i. 220 ff.
[311] Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven, G.S., i. 90 ff.
[312] The reader may be reminded that Wagner has been expounding the Schopenhauerian theory of music as the idea of the world.
[313] Beethoven, in G.S., ix. 101.
[314] G.S., i. in. 111.
[315] This explains why he was so unapt at setting anyone's poetry but his own.