[16] “Peps” was the dog which helped to compose “Tannhäuser.”
[17] The parrot.
[18] Wagner used to take “Gypsy” out for a walk daily.
[19] Then conductor of the New Philharmonic concerts, at present director of the London Academy of Music.
[20] Meaning of two Richard Wagners.
[21] Burning of the opera house, Covent Garden.
[22] An English translation of these memoirs by Baron de Worms was published in 1887.
[23] Letter to Mr. Villot, page 35.
[24] Alluding to the action taken by Frederick of Baden (whose wife was a lover of Wagner’s music) to secure the reinstalment of Wagner as a citizen of Germany.
[25] Then “Chef de claque.”