[326] The "Report" that accompanies this programme in the Prose Works is an extract from the (at that time) unpublished Mein Leben.
[327] He had gone there to produce Rienzi, and to try to arrange for a performance of Lohengrin. Rienzi was a failure.
[328] The Intendant of the Dresden Opera.
[329] Gustav Levy, Richard Wagners Lebensgang in tabellarischer Darstellung, p. 32.
[330] Liszt writes thus in June or July 1849, i.e. a month or six weeks after Wagner's flight from Dresden. "Forgive me if I suggest that you should manage so that you are not of necessity brought into enmity with things and men who bar your road to success and glory. A truce therefore to political commonplaces, socialistic balderdash, and personal hatreds. On the other hand, good courage, strong patience, and plenty of fire, which will not be difficult for you with the volcanoes you have in your brain." Briefwechsel zwischen Wagner und Liszt, i. 24.
[331] Die Königliche Kapelle betreffend, in G.S., xii. 149 ff. No notice was taken of the Report by the authorities for a year; then they refused to act upon it.
[332] The essay—Entwurf zur Organisation eines Deutschen National-Theaters für das Konigreich Sachsen, in G.S., ii. 233 ff.—must be read in full. "My plan," he says, "was not merely to rescue the theatre, but at the same time to conduct it, under the shelter and inspection of the State, to a noble significance and efficacy." His main thesis was that "the Theatre should have no other purpose than the ennoblement of taste and manners." See Wagner's own account of the affair in Mein Leben, pp. 444 ff.
[333] See Mein Leben, pp. 434 ff.
[334] G.S., xii. 238 ff.
[335] G.S., xii. 243 ff.