Chapter XXIV: Act III: of Die E major Opera," published Lucrezia

Feen_. (unfinished). anonymously in the Borgia_.
_Zeitung für die elegante
6th Jan. Finishes Welt_ of 10th June 1834. First number
Overture to _Die of the
Feen_. (Opera first Article "Pasticcio," _Neue Zeitschrift
performed 29th June published in the _Neue für Musik_
1888 at Munich.) Zeitschrift für Musik_, published
6-10th Nov. 1834 (signed
Jan. Returns to "Canto Spianato").
Leipzig. Writes
text of _Das
Liebesverbot_.

July. Conductor
at Magdeburg.

1835 _Columbus Overture_ Halévy's
(performed at Kahnt, _La Juive_.
1835, in Riga,
19th March 1838, Donizetti's
and at Paris, 4th _Lucia di
Feb. 1841; Lammermoor_.
published by
Breitkopf & Härtel Grimm's "German
in 1907). Mythology"
published.
Jan. New Year
Cantata, "Beim
Antritt des
neuen Jahres"
(published 1914).

1836 March. Finished _Das Liebesverbot_ Text of "Männerlist Meyerbeer's
music of _Das (_The Novice of grösser als Frauenlist" _Les Huguenots_.
Liebesverbot_. Palermo_), (music never written).
performed in
August. Settles Magdeburg, Article, "Aus Magdeburg"
at Königsberg. under Wagner, (published anonymously
29th March. in the _Neue Zeitschrift
24th Nov. Marries für Musik_ for 19th
Minna Planer. _"Rule, Britannia"_ April 1836).
Overture
(published by
Breitkopf &
Härtel
in 1907).

_"Polonia" Overture_
(begun in 1832;
published by
Breitkopf & Härtel
in 1907).

1837 May. Leaves Romance in "Die hohe Braut"(Opera Lortzing's
Königsberg. G major, text, sketched in 1836 _Zar und
"Sanfte Wehmut and sent to Scribe in Zimmermann_.
August. Settles will sich regen," 1837. Offered to
in Riga. (for insertion in Reissiger in 1842.
Blum's Singspiel Versified by Wagner
"Marie, Max in 1847, and composed by
und Michel"). Johann Kittl under the
title of "Bianca und
Giuseppa, oder die
Franzosen vor Nizza").

Articles "Der dramatische
Gesang," and "Die _Norma_
von Bellini" (the latter
lost).

Article, "Bellini, Ein
Wort zu seiner Zeit,"
published in the _Rigaer
Zuschauer_, 7-19th
Dec. 1837.

1838 July. Begins "Der Tannenbaum" "Die glückliche Berlioz's
_Rienzi_. (song). Bärenfamilie" (comic _Benvenuto
opera in 2 Acts. Cellini_.
Conceives idea of Text only).
_Flying Dutchman_.

1839 May. Completes A _Faust Overture_
first two Acts of (finished Feb. 1840,
_Rienzi_. rehearsed by
Habeneck at Paris,
July. Leaves Riga. but not performed).

September.
At Paris. Songs:--
"Dors, mon Enfant."
"Mignonne."
"Attente."
"Les deux
Grenadiers."

1840 September. Schumann's
Finishes _Rienzi_. _Myrthen,_
_Frauenliebe_ and
Sketches _Flying _Dichterliebe_.
Dutchman_.
Donizetti's
Meets Liszt for _Favorita_.
first time.
Tchaikovski
Oct. Writes born.
_Rienzi_ Overture.

Nov. Finishes
scoring of
_Rienzi_.

1840-42 Articles written in
Paris: "The Nature of
German Music" (_Gazette
Musicale_, Nos. 44-6,
1840).

"Pergolesi's Stabat Mater"
(_G. M._, No. 57. 1840).

"The Virtuoso and The
Artist" (_G. M._, No. 58.
1840).

"A Pilgrimage to
Beethoven" (_G. M._,
Nos. 65, 66, 68, 69.
1840). "The Overture"
(_G. M._, Nos. 3-5. 1841).

"An End in Paris" (_G. M._,
Nos. 9, 11, 12. 1841).
"Report" for the
_Dresdener Abendzeitung_,
(23rd Feb. 1841).

"The Artist and Publicity"
(_G. M._, No. 26. 1841).

"Parisian Amusements"
(_Europa_, April, 1841).

"Report" for the
_Dresdener Abendzeitung_,
6th April, 1841.

"Report" for the
_Dresdener Abendzeitung_,
5th May, 1841.

"Parisian Fatalities for
Germans" (_Europa_, May
1841).

"Der Freischütz" (_G. M._,
Nos. 34-5. 1841).

"Le Freischütz"
(_Dresdener Abendzeitung_,
20th June 1841).

"Report" for the
_Dresdener Abendzeitung_,
6th July 1841.

"Report" for the
_Dresdener Abendzeitung_
("Impressions of a
Parisian Sunday,"
1st Aug. 1841).

"Report" for the
_Dresdener Abendzeitung_,
8th Sept. 1841.

"A Happy Evening" (_G. M._,
Nos. 56-8. 1841).

"Report" for the
_Dresdener Abendzeitung_,
5th Nov. 1841.

"Report" for the
_Dresdener Abendzeitung_,
1st Dec. 1841.

"Rossini's Stabat Mater"
(_Neue Zeitschrift für
Abendzeitung_
15th Dec. 1841).

"Report" for the
_Dresdener Abendzeitung_
(Halévy's "La Reine de
Chypre"), 23rd Dec. 1841.

"Report" for the
_Dresdener Abendzeitung_
("On a New Paris Opera"),
31st Dec. 1841.

"Halévy et La Reine de
Chypre" (_G. M._, Nos. 9,
11, 17, 18. 1842).

1841 Engaged on the Feuerbach's _Wesen
_Flying Dutchman_, des Christenthums_.
music written
in July and Aug.

1842 April. At 20th Oct. First _Die Bergwerke zu Falun_; Death of Cherubini.
Dresden. Plans performance of opera in three Acts.
_Tannhäuser_ _Rienzi_ at (Sketch only).
("Der Venusberg"). Dresden,
under Reissiger. _Die Sarazenin_; Opera in
five Acts (sketched in
Paris in 1841; text
finished in Dresden
in 1843; music never
written).

Nov. "Autobiographical
Sketch."

1843 Feb. Becomes a 2nd Jan. First Schumann's _Paradise
Court Kapellmeister performance of _The and the Peri_.
at Dresden. Flying Dutchman_
at Dresden, under Robert Franz's
May completes Wagner. first set of songs.
_Tannhäuser poem_.
May and June. _The Grieg born.
July. Begins Love Feast of the
composition of Apostles_.
_Tannhäuser_. (Performed
6th July.)

"Festgesang" for
male chorus
(published 1914).

1844 Oct. Finishes Aug. "Gruss Account of the bringing Verdi's _Ernani_.
Acts I and II seiner Treuen an home of Weber's remains
of _Tannhäuser_. Friedrich den from London to Dresden.
Geliebten" for
male chorus.

Arrangement of the
Triumphal March
from Spontini's
"La Vestale."

Dec. Funeral music
at Weber's grave
(published 1914).

1845 13th April. 19th Oct. First
Completes performance of
scoring of _Tannhäuser_ at
_Tannhäuser_. Dresden under
Wagner.
July. Sketches
poem of
_Lohengrin_.

July. Idea of
_Meistersinger_
and _Parsifal_
conceived but
put aside.

Nov. Poem of
_Lohengrin_
completed.

1846 Palm Sunday Various articles on Berlioz's _Faust_.
(5th April). Beethoven's 9th Symphony,
Produces the _à propos_ of his own Lortzing's
Ninth Symphony performance of the work _Waffenschmied_.
at Dresden. on 5th April.
Mendelssohn's
Sept. 1846 to "Concerning the Royal _Elijah_.
March 1847. Kapelle."
Writes 3rd Act
of _Lohengrin_. "Artist and Critic, with
respect to a particular
case" (in _Dresdener
Anzeiger_).
1847 May to June. Arrangement of Death of
Writes 1st Act Gluck's _Iphigenia Mendelssohn.
of _Lohengrin_. in Aulis_.

June to August.
Writes 2nd Act
of _Lohengrin_
and Prelude.

1848 9th Jan. His mother Feb. Revolution
dies. in Paris.

March. Finishes March. Risings in
scoring of Vienna and Berlin.
_Lohengrin_

14th June.
Makes political
speech to the
"Vaterlandsverein."

Nov. Writes poem Arrangement of (Summer.) "The Schumann's
of _Siegfried's Palestrina's Wibelungen: _Faust_.
Death_. "Stabat Mater." World-history from the
Saga" (not published Schumann's
Plans "Friedrich till 1850). _Manfred_.
Barbarossa."
(Autumn.) "The
Nibelungen Myth as
sketch of a Drama."

Speech at the 300th
Anniversary of the
Foundation of the Royal
Musical Chapel in
Dresden.

(December.) "Jesus von
Nazareth."

"What is the relation
of Republican efforts to
the Monarchy?"

1849 16th Feb. Liszt "Theatrical Reform." May. Risings in
produces Dresden.
_Tannhäuser_ in "A Project for the
Weimar. Organisation of a German Meyerbeer's
National Theatre for _Le Prophète_.
May. Wagner flees the Kingdom of Saxony"
from Dresden to (presented to the Death of Chopin.
Weimar and thence Ministry 16th May 1848).
to Zürich. Later
to Paris; then "Art and Revolution."
returns to Zürich.
(Jan.) "Edouard
Devrient's Geschichte
der deutschen
Schauspielkunst."

(April.) "Man and
Existing Society."

(April.) "The Revolution."

1850 Jan. Goes to Paris, 26th Aug. First "The Art-Work of the Schumann's
hoping to get an performance of Future" (written Nov. _Genoveva_.
opera produced. _Lohengrin_ at and Dec. 1849).
Weimar under Liszt.
Returns to "Wieland the Smith"
Switzerland. (sketched as a drama end
of 1849 or beginning of
1850; worked out more
elaborately in 1850 in
Paris).

"Art and Climate."
"Judaism and Music" (a
pseudonymous article in
the _Neue Zeitschrift
für Musik_; expanded and
re-published under his
own name in 1869).

1851 May-June. Writes "Opera and Drama" Schopenhauer's
poem of _Young (written in winter _Parerga und
Siegfried_. 1850-51). Paralipomena_.

"A Communication to my Verdi's
Friends." _Rigoletto_.

"On the Goethe Death of
Foundation." Spontini.

"A Letter to Franz
Liszt."

"A Theatre in Zürich."

"Recollections of
Spontini."

"Explanatory Programme
to Beethoven's 'Eroica'
Symphony."

1852 Meets the
Wesendoncks.

Writes poems of "On Musical Criticism."
_Valkyrie_ and
_Rheingold_. Explanatory Programmes
to the "Coriolan"
Recasts _Young Overture; "Flying
Siegfried_ and Dutchman" Overture; and
_Siegfried's Death_, "Tannhäuser" Overture.
calling the former
_Siegfried_ and the "On the performing of
latter _Die _Tannhäuser_."
Götterdämmerung_.

The text was
privately printed
as _Der Ring des
Nibelungen_ in
1853.

1853 Oct. Working at Album Sonata in "Remarks on performing 3rd Jan. Death
music of the E flat major (for the _Flying Dutchman_." of Uhlig.
_Rheingold_. Frau Wesendonck).
Explanatory programme to Verdi's
"Züricher the _Lohengrin_ Prelude. _Il Trovatore_.
Vielliebchen"
(Waltz in E flat Verdi's
major). _Traviata_.

1854 Jan. Finishes "Gluck's Overture to Hanslick's _Vom
_Rheingold_ music. _Iphigenia in Aulis_." Musikalisch-Schönen_.

May. Finishes the "A Letter to the Editor
scoring. of _Neue Zeitschrift für
Musik_."
June to Dec.
Writes music of
the _Valkyrie_.

Autumn. Conceives
idea of _Tristan_.

Reading
Schopenhauer.

1855 In London and "A Faust Overture"
Zürich. (second version).

Scoring the
_Valkyrie_.

1856 April. Finishes May. _Die Sieger_ Death of
scoring the (sketch for a Schumann.
_Valkyrie_. Buddhistic drama).

Autumn. Working at
music of
_Siegfried_.

1857 March. Receives Elgar born.
request for an
opera for Rio de
Janeiro.

April. Settles in
the "Asyl" by
Wesendonck's house.

July. Finishes 1st "On Franz Liszt's
and part of 2nd Act Symphonic Poems."
of _Siegfried_.

August. Makes prose
sketch of _Tristan_.

18th Sept. Finishes
poem of _Tristan_.

Idea of _Parsifal_
revives.

31st Dec. Completes
music of 1st Act
of _Tristan_,
also Prelude.

1857-58 Five Songs:

1. The Angel.
2. Be still.
3. In the Hothouse.
4. Grief.
5. Dreams.

1858 In Paris and Cornelius's _Barber
Switzerland. of Bagdad_.

April. Scores 1st Puccini born.
Act of _Tristan_.

Summer. Writes 2nd
Act of _Tristan_.

1859 9th April to 16th "Homage to Spohr and Gounod's _Faust_.
July. Writes 3rd Fischer."
Act of _Tristan_. Death of Spohr.

8th Aug. Scoring of
_Tristan_ finished.

15th Sept. In Paris.

1860 At Brussels and "Letter to Hector Hugo Wolf born.
Paris. Berlioz."

Makes Paris version "Zukunftsmusik."
of _Tannhäuser_.

August. Amnestied,
except in Saxony.

1861 13th, 18th, and 24th Albumblatt in "Account of the Production
March, _Tannhäuser_ A flat major. of Tannhäuser in Paris."
given in Paris.
"Ankunft bei den Article "On Rota's _Gräfin
May. Hears schwarze Schwänen." Egmont_," written for the
_Lohengrin_ for the (An Albumblatt for _Vienna Oesterreichische
first time, in Countess Zeitung_, and signed
Vienna. Pourtalès), based "P. C." (Peter Cornelius).
on Elisabeth's
10th July. Minna aria in Act 2 of
leaves him finally, Tannhäuser.
except for a visit
to him in Biebrich Albumblatt in
in 1862. C major (for
Princess
Dec. 1861 to Metternich).
Jan. 1862. Writes
_Meistersinger_ poem.

1862 Feb. At Biebrich. Liszt's
Commences _St. Elisabeth_.
composition of
_Meistersinger_. Debussy born.

March. Amnestied in
Saxony.

2nd June.
_Meistersinger_
Overture given in
Leipzig.

Nov. In Vienna.

1863 At St. Petersburg, "The Vienna Court Opera
Moscow, &c., trying House."
to raise money by
concerts. "Nibelungen" Poem
published with a preface.
May. In Penzing
(Vienna).

1864 10th March. Huldigungsmarsch. Poem: "To the Kingly Death of
Ludwig II ascends Friend." Meyerbeer.
the Bavarian throne.

23rd March. Wagner "State and Religion" Richard Strauss
flies from his (not printed for public born.
creditors to circulation till 1873).
Mariafeld.

3rd May. Ludwig
sends for him:
Wagner settles at
Starnberg. (In
Munich Oct.)

1865 10th April. Isolde, 10th June, "What is German?" (not
daughter of Wagner 1st performance published as a whole till
and Cosima von of _Tristan_ at 1878).
Bülow, born in Munich, under
Munich. Von Bülow.

July. Resumes "Report to His Majesty
composition of King Ludwig II of Bavaria
_Siegfried_. upon a German Music-School
to be founded in Munich."
27-30 Aug. Sketches
_Parsifal_ for King
Ludwig.

Dec. Leaves Munich;
settles for a while
in Switzerland.

1866 25th Jan. Death of
Minna.

April. Settles at
Tribschen (Lucerne).

May. Cosima von
Bülow leaves her
husband and goes to
live with Wagner
at Tribschen.

June. Composition
of 1st Act of
_Meistersinger_
finished.

Oct. Hans Richter
sent to Wagner by
Esser.

2nd Act of
_Meistersinger_
completed.

1867 18th Feb. Eva, "Critiques"-- Gounod's
daughter of Wagner 1. W. H. Riehl. _Romeo and Juliet._
and Cosima von 2. Ferdinand Hiller.
Bülow, born in
Tribschen. "German Art and German
Policy" (reprinted in
20th Oct. Finishes book form in 1868).
_Meistersinger_.

1868 Nov. Makes 21st June. 1st "Recollections of Ludwig Death of Rossini.
Nietzsche's performance of Schnorr von Carolsfeld."
acquaintance. _Meistersinger_ Brahms's _German
at Munich, under "Critiques":-- Requiem_.
Von Bülow. 3. Recollections of
Rossini. Boïto's
4. Edward Devrient. _Mefistofele_.
5. Appendix to "Judaism
in Music" (accompanying
book-form edition).

1869 Feb. Finishes 2nd 22nd Sept. First "On Conducting." Death of Berlioz
Act of _Siegfried_. performance of
_Rheingold_ at
6th June. Siegfried Munich, under
Wagner born. Wüllner.

Sept. Finishes 3rd
Act of _Siegfried_.

Oct. Begins music of
_Götterdämmerung_.

1870 11th Jan. Finishes
1st Act of
_Götterdämmerung_.

5th July. Finishes 26 June. First 3 poems: "Rheingold"
2nd Act of performance of (1868); "On the
_Götterdämmerung_. _Valkyrie_ at completion of Siegfried"
Munich, under (1869); "25 Aug. 1870."
18 July. Cosima Wüllner.
divorced by "Beethoven."
Von Bülow. _Siegfried Idyll_
(given at
25 Aug. Wagner Tribschen,
marries Cosima 25 Dec.).
Von Bülow

"Open Letter to Dr. F.
Stade."

"Mein Leben" (privately
printed).

1871 Feb. Finishes Kaisermarsch. Poem: "To the German Death of Auber.
scoring of Army before Paris."
_Siegfried_. Verdi's _Aida_.
"A Capitulation" (not
May. Begins published until 1873). Death of Tausig.
publication of
his Collected "Recollections of Auber."
Writings.
"On the Destiny of
June. Emil Heckel Opera."
forms first Wagner
Society at "Letter to an Italian
Mannheim. Friend on the production
of _Lohengrin_ at
Bologna."

"On the production of the
Stage-Festival-Drama _The
Ring of the Nibelung_."

Preface to the Collected
Edition of his Prose and
Poetical Works.

"Report to the German
Wagnerverein."

1872 Feb. Finishes 3rd
Act of
_Götterdämmerung_.

April. Settles in "Actors and Singers." Nietzsche's _Geburt
Bayreuth. der Tragödie aus
"To the Burgomaster of dem Geiste der Musik._
22 May. Foundation Bologna."
stone of the
Bayreuth Theatre "To Friedrich Nietzsche."
laid.
"On the name Music Drama."

"Letter to an Actor."

"Epilogue to the Ring."

1873 Completes "A Glance at the German
re-publication of Operatic Stage of to-day."
nine volumes of
works. "The rendering of
Beethoven's 9th Symphony."
22 May. Begins
building of "Prologue to a reading of
"Wahnfried." the _Götterdämmerung_
before a select audience
May. Begins scoring at Berlin."
_Götterdämmerung_.
"Bayreuth"--Final Report,
2 Aug. The Bayreuth &c.
theatre finished in
the rough. "The Festival Playhouse
at Bayreuth."

1874 May. Enters into "On Spohr's _Jessonda_." Death of Peter
residence at Cornelius.
"Wahnfried." "On an Operatic
Performance in Leipzig."
1875 Albumblatt in E Bizet's _Carmen_.
flat major.
Goldmark's
_Queen of Sheba_.

1876 American Centennial Brahms's
March. 1st Symphony.

Aug. 13-17. First
performance of the
_Ring_ at Bayreuth,
under Richter.

1877 Jan.-April. Writes "To the Committee of Saint-Saëns'
poem of _Parsifal_. the Wagnervereine." _Samson and Dalila_.

Dec. Poem published. "Sketch for a School Massenet's _Le Roi
for Style." de Lahore_.
Autumn. Begins the
music.

7-29 May. Conducts
eight concerts in
Albert Hall, London.

1878 Jan. First number of "What is German?"
"Bayreuther Blätter"
issued. "Modern."

20 April. 1st Act of "Public and Popularity."
_Parsifal_ finished.
"The Public in Time and
Oct. 2nd Act of Space."
_Parsifal_ finished.
"Retrospect of the Stage
Dec. Begins scoring Festivals of 1876."
of _Parsifal_.
"Introduction to the
28 April. Angelo 'Bayreuther Blätter.'"
Neumann gives (in
Leipzig) first
performance of Ring
after Bayreuth.

1879 Jan.-April. Writes "Shall we Hope?"
3rd Act of
_Parsifal_. "Open Letter to Herr E.
von Weber."

"On Poetry and
Composition."

"On Operatic Poetry and
Composition."

"On the Application of
Music to the Drama."

"The Work and Mission of
my Life."

"Introductory Word" (to
Hans von Wolzogen's
"Über Errettung der
deutschen Sprache.")

1880 In Italy. "Religion and Art."

"What boots this
Knowledge?"

"Introduction to the
year 1880." ("Bayreuther
Blätter")

"Communication to the
Patrons of the Stage
Drama."

1881 Jan. Angelo "Introduction to a work of
Neumann begins of Count Gobineau."
(in Berlin) his
European tour "Know Thyself."
with the _Ring_.
"Hero-dom and
Christendom."

1882 13 Jan. Finishes 26 July. First "_Parsifal_ at Bayreuth."
scoring of performance of
_Parsifal_. _Parsifal_ at "On the Production of a
Bayreuth youthful Symphony."
Sept. Goes to under Levi.
Venice. "Letter to Hans von
Wolzogen."
Dec. Conducts his
youthful Symphony "Open Letter to Friedrich
in C major in Schon."
Venice.

1883 13 Feb. Dies at "On the Human Womanly" Saint-Saëns'
Venice. (posthumous fragment). _Henry the Eighth_.

18 Feb. Buried at "Letter to Herr von Dvorak's
Bayreuth. Stein." _Stabat Mater_.

INDEX

Adam, 153, 154 _n._

Adler, Guido, 227

Æschylus, 176, 351, 357

Agoult, Comtesse d', 130 _n._, 131

Alexander, 3

Altnikol, 349

Ander, 19

Anna (Wagner's servant), 113

Apel, Theodor, 25 ff., 62 ff., 69, 70

Aristotle, 194

Arnold, 206

Asquith, Mr., 330

Auber, 151

Avenarius, Cäcilie. _See_ Cäcilie Wagner

Bach, 83, 128, 147, 158 ff., 162 _n._, 212 ff., 218, 236, 239,
284, 301, 305, 307, 314, 321 ff., 335 ff., 348 ff.

Baden, Grand Duke of, 128

Bakunin, 47

Baumgartner, 8, 133

Beethoven, 29, 57 _n._, 146, 150, 155 ff., 160 ff., 164 ff., 172,
182, 189 ff., 200, 212 ff., 220 ff., 225 ff., 230 ff., 236,
238 ff., 272, 278, 301, 305, 321 ff., 329, 334 ff., 356

Bellini, 147, 149, 150, 152, 153, 243

Berlioz, 5 _n._, 33 _n._, 159, 166 _n._, 190, 230, 241, 308 ff.

Bertha (milliner), 122 ff., 125

Bissing, Henriette von, 116, 117, 124

Blake, 159, 320

Bonfantini, 333

Bournot, Otto, 331, 334

Boughton, Rutland, 357 _n._

Brahms, 159, 213, 221, 232, 301, 323, 326 ff.

Brockhaus, Luise. _See_ Luise Wagner

Browning, 159, 339

Bruch, Max, 329

Buddha, The, 316

Busoni, 214

Bülow, Cosima von. _See_ Cosima Wagner

Bülow, Hans von, 4, 24, 31, 38 _n._, 75, 114 ff., 126, 129, 130 _n._,
133, 139 ff., 332

Burrell, Mrs., 329 ff.

Calderon, 90

Calvin, 3

Carroll, 185

Cavalli, 227

Chamberlain, H. S., 45 _n._, 173

Charpentier, 345

Cherubini, 165, 188

Chorley, H. F., 33

Clough, 206

Columbus, 217

Cornelius, 4, 24, 66, 106, 110, 117 _n._, 119, 124, 128, 133,
134 ff., 140

Dannreuther, E., 149 _n._, 162 _n._

Davison, Henry, 33 _n._

-- J. W., 32, 33

Debussy, 172, 305, 322, 336, 345 ff.

Dietrich, 67, 68, 71

Dingelstedt, 13 ff.

Dorn, Heinrich, 153

Draeseke, 144

Dukas, 356

Dustmann, Frau, 20, 109 ff.

Ellis, W. A., 2 _n._, 12 _n._, 13 _n._, 32, 34. 36, 38 ff.,
42 _n._, 52, 83 _n._, 85, 86 _n._, 87 _n._, 92 _n._,
93 _n._, 99 _n._, 112, 114 _n._

Erlanger, 10

Evans, Edwin, 200 _n._

Fétis, 5

Feuerbach, 82, 121, 176

Feustel, 329

Fips (dog), 38 ff.

Fischer, W., 17, 18

France, Anatole, 268, 319

Francis, St., 316

Franck, César, 233, 321, 323

Franz (Wagner's servant), 113

Frays, von, 15, 18

Frederick the Great, 82

Frommann, Alwine, 31, 45

Gaillard, 32

Galsworthy, John, 351

Gautier, Judith, 3 _n._

Geyer, Benjamin, 334

-- Ludwig, 326 ff.

Gladstone, 3

Glasenapp, 15 _n._, 37 _n._, 45 _n._, 56 _n._, 87 _n._, 110 _n._,
127, 133, 138, 236, 249, 331

Gluck, 149, 164 ff., 188, 191, 193, 198, 220, 222, 224, 225, 323

Goethe, 194, 199, 293

Gounod, 35

Greek Drama, 176 ff., 192 ff., 219, 351 ff.

Grieg, 329

Guiata, von, 110

Habeneck, 155

Hafiz, 121

Halévy, 12

Handel, 244

Hanslick, 19 ff., 54, 71 _n._, 112, 140, 143, 303, 304

Hardy, Thomas, 353, 357

Härtinger, 14

Haydn, 221, 323

Heine, 59, 244

Heinse, 59, 149

Herwegh, 133

-- Frau, 95, 97

Heubner, 47

Heyse, Paul, 7

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 345

Hoffmann, E. T. A., 146, 221 _n._

Hokusai, 293

Holtei, 153

Hornstein, Ferdinand von, 6, 12

-- Robert von, 6 ff., 23, 35, 54, 67 _n._, 82, 85

Hueffer, F., 123 _n._

Hugo, Victor, 23

Huneker, J. G., 316 ff., 327 ff.

Indy, Vincent d', 323

Julius Cæsar, 3

Kalergis, Mme., 81

Kapp, Julius, 12 _n._, 54 _n._, 62 _n._, 89, 91, 106, 109, 111, 113,
116, 118

Keats, 207

Kellermann, 129, 138

Kietz, 51, 53, 243

Kittl, 260

Köhler, 136

König, 260

Küstner, 12

Lablache, 243

Lachner, 12 ff., 54

Laube, H., 20, 33, 34, 149, 156, 172

Laussot, Eugène, 45 ff., 75

-- Jessie, 5, 31, 37, 44 ff., 58, 76 _n._, 84, 107, 133

Lear, 185

Leonardo, 293

Lessing, 192, 343 _n._

Levi, Hermann, 121 _n._, 249

Levy, Gustav, 173

Lichtenberger, H., 122 _n._

Lingg, Hermann, 7

Liszt, 3, 13, 18 _n._, 24, 50, 51, 73, 85 _n._, 86 _n._, 89, 90, 106,
120, 123, 129 ff., 133, 134, 140 ff., 174 _n._, 207, 208, 240, 324

Logier, 238

Ludwig, Emil, 122 _n._, 295, 320 _n._

-- King, 18 _n._, 19, 81, 110, 116 ff., 124, 133 ff., 144, 249

Lüttichau, 173

Maeterlinck, 353

Mahler, 329

Maier, Mathilde, 109, 111, 112, 117

Marie (Wagner's servant), 115 _n._, 116

Marschner, 241, 247

Mauro, Seraphine, 106, 134, 135

Méhul, 154, 188

_Mein Leben_, Untrustworthiness of, 4 ff., 39 ff., 50, 54, 62,
63 _n._, 88

Meissner, 33 ff.

Mendelssohn, 33, 186, 199, 214, 216 _n._, 240, 328

Meredith, G., 80

Metastasio, 187

Metternich, Princess, 10

Meyer, Friederike, 109 ff., 116, 117

Meyerbeer, 5 _n._, 23, 31, 33 _n._, 36, 173, 190, 191, 203

Milton, 159, 342, 343

Minnaphobia, Wagnerian, 36 ff., 42, 56

Monnaie, Ed., 12 _n._

Monteverdi, 213, 227, 323, 325

Morny, 10

Morris, Wm., 343

Mosel, 224

Mottl, 328, 332 ff.

Mozart, 147, 149, 152, 160, 162, 164 ff., 186, 188, 189, 191, 214,
220, 221, 225, 244, 312

Napoleon I, 3, 82, 162, 163, 195, 306

-- III, 10, 76 _n._

Nietzsche, 23, 27, 30, 36, 47, 67 _n._, 128, 141, 316 ff., 327 ff.

Ollivier, Blandine, 106, 116

Osenbrück, 34

Pachta, Count, 30, 34

Palestrina, 323, 325

Papo (parrot), 41

Payn, James, 208

Pecht, 26 _n._, 34

Peps (dog), 41

Peri, 227

Pforten, von der, 14

Phidias, 182

Planer, Minna. _See_ Minna Wagner

-- Natalie, 64 _n._, 111

Pleyel, 239

Pohlenz, 146, 155

Pope, 159

Porges, Fritz, 124, 135

-- Heinrich, 135, 136

Praeger, F., 56 _n._, 85

Puccini, 345

Pusinelli, 97 _n._, 104 _n._, 105, 109

_Putzmacherin, Die._ _See_ Bertha

Racine, 192

Rameau, 323

Renoir, 320 _n._

Ritter, Frau, 7 _n._, 31, 46, 49, 51 _n._

-- Karl, 8, 10 _n._, 31, 45, 53 ff., 99, 102, 133

Roeckel, August, 3, 47, 175, 186

Röckl, Sebastian, 14 ff.

Rose, Frau, 330, 332

Rossini, 122, 189, 190

Runciman, J. F., 259, 262, 268, 307, 308, 316 ff.

St. Georges, 12, 13

Schiller, 33, 158, 194, 200

Schlesinger, 12 _n._

Schmidt, G., 15

Schmitt, W., 14

Schmitz, Eugen, 224 _n._

Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 4, 139

Schönaich, G., 124

Schopenhauer, 7, 121, 122, 158 _n._, 352

Schott, 6, 137 _n._, 146

Schröder-Devrient, 149, 150, 152, 155, 208, 226

Schubert, 159, 218, 241, 307

Schumann, Clara, 214

-- Robert, 159, 214, 244, 245, 272, 323

Schuré, E., 138 ff.

Schwabe, 63, 65

Scribe, 13, 34, 191

Shakespeare, 58, 151, 159, 182, 192 ff., 203, 205, 249, 301, 303, 315

Shaw, G. B., 97 _n._, 304, 353

Sophocles, 176

Spencer, Herbert, 306

Spinoza, 342

Spitzer, D., 122

Spohr, 147

Spontini, 165, 186, 189

_Stabreim_, 197, 199, 200, 209, 210, 275

Standhartner, Dr., 20, 21 _n._, 106 ff., 136, 137 _n._

Stanford, Sir Charles, 326 ff.

Strauss, D. F., 82

-- Richard, 159, 172, 302 ff., 321 ff., 340 ff., 356

Strindberg, 133

Sulzer, 178

Swinburne, 159, 320, 353

Tappert, W., 20 _n._

Tausig, 4, 24, 127 ff., 135

Taylor, Mrs., 45, 51 _n._, 54, 55

Tchaikovski, 340, 356

Thespis, 182

Tieck, 193

Uhlig, 3, 31, 83 _n._, 179, 204, 209, 215, 244

Verdi, 227

Voltaire, 202

Wagner, Adolf, 330 ff.

-- Albert, 330 ff.

-- Cäcilie, 81 _n._, 331

-- Clara, 84, 85, 92, 94, 109

-- Cosima, 37, 38, 45, 81, 84, 109, 112, 114 ff., 125 _n._, 129,
130 _n._, 328, 332, 333

-- Eva, 37 _n._, 118

-- Franziska, 83

-- Isolde, 37 _n._, 118

-- Johanna, 326 ff.

-- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm, 326 ff.

-- Luise, 82, 110, 112

Wagner, Minna, 5, 6, 13, 22, 24, 30, 36 ff., 42 ff., 57 ff., 106 ff.,
110 _n._, 111, 118, 133, 174

-- Richard:
_Personal Characteristics_

Belief in himself, 2, 22, 24, 75, 77, 121 ff.
Borrowing, habits of, 8 ff., 25, 26 ff., 65
Charm of personality, 3, 4, 28
Complexity of character, 1, 28 ff., 36, 43 ff., 99 ff., 116,
120 ff., 128 ff., 141 ff.
Egoism, 2, 3, 4, 22, 66, 75, 94, 95, 97, 118, 128, 140
Epistolary skill, 22, 87, 104
Exacting with friends, 4, 128 ff.
Excessive sensibility, 127, 133 ff.
Extremes of nature, 138 ff.
Extravagance, 106, 124 ff.
Hatred of critics, 30 ff.
-- of Jews, 32, 121
Indelicacy of soul, 23, 24, 29, 65 ff., 89
Ingratitude, 76
Irritability, 7 _n._, 28 ff., 33 ff., 61, 67, 97 _n._
Love of luxury, 122 ff.
Passion for reading to friends, 137 ff.
-- -- dominance, 3, 4, 21, 128, 143
-- -- self-justification, 23
Purity as an artist, 2, 72, 76
Unconscious actor, 23, 68, 94 ff.
Vitality of temperament, 26
Women, susceptibility to, 43, 45, 58, 83 ff., 111, 112 ff., 269
Youthful wildness, 25 ff., 57 ff, 72

MUSICAL WORKS
_Operas_

_Die Hochzeit_, 238, 241, 246
_Die Feen_, 26, 59, 147, 241, 246 ff., 249, 250, 251, 253, 254,
256 ff., 265, 307, 310
_Das Liebesverbot_, 26, 58, 59, 63, 151, 241, 249 ff., 258, 273
_Rienzi_, 17, 18, 102, 154, 155, 163, 173 _n._, 211, 212, 240,
242, 245, 249, 257 ff., 260, 273 ff., 329
_The Flying Dutchman_, 18, 32, 45, 71 n., 163, 168, 171, 174, 211,
212, 244, 245, 247, 249, 259, 260, 261 ff., 269 ff., 310, 319, 329
_Tannhäuser_, 5 _n._, 8, 9 _n._, 13, 14 ff., 18 _n._, 32, 35, 39 _n._,
76 _n._, 106, 119, 122, 169, 70 ff., 208 _n._, 229, 230, 241, 244,
245, 247, 253, 259, 263 ff., 270, 329, 341, 347, 348, 350
_Lohengrin_, 15, 18 _n._, 19, 50, 69, 79 _n._, 119, 122, 145, 168,
171 ff., 241, 243 ff., 247, 259, 263 ff., 270 ff., 292,
310, 319, 329
_The Ring of the Nibelung_, 77, 79 _n._, 122 _n._, 137, 186 _n._,
209, 212, 220, 245, 266 ff., 297 ff., 328, 352

(a) _The Rhinegold_, 74, 137, 171, 218, 233, 270 ff.
(b) _The Valkyrie_, 35, 74, 85, 137, 171, 210, 271 ff.
(c) _Siegfried_, 120, 138, 210, 269 ff.
(d) _The Twilight of the Gods_, 120, 138, 234, 237, 270 ff.

_Tristan and Isolde_, 11, 17, 20, 35, 85, 88, 91, 94, 101, 106,
107, 109, 111, 125, 126, 139, 145, 171, 209, 220, 247, 257,
262, 266, 269 ff., 288 ff., 300, 310 ff., 321, 339 ff.,
352, 355 ff.
_Die Meistersinger_, 20, 21, 22, 107, 109, 111, 135, 137, 145,
169, 171, 209, 220, 230, 266, 270 ff., 288 ff., 310 ff.,
329, 342, 350, 353
_Parsifal_, 107, 121 n., 171, 209, 266, 290 ff., 300, 312 ff.,
315 ff., 343, 357

PIANOFORTE WORKS

Albumblatt for Betty Schott, 236
-- -- Princess Metternich, 237
-- in E major (for Kietz), 243
Album Sonata for Frau Wesendonck, 237
Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen, 237
Fantasia in F sharp minor, 238
Polonaise in D major, 239
Sonata in A major, 239
-- in B flat major, 238

ORCHESTRAL WORKS

_Columbus_ Overture, 240, 249
_Faust_ Overture, 235, 239, 245, 265, 329
_King Enzio_ Overture, 146, 240, 249
_Polonia_ Overture, 240, 249
_Rule, Britannia_ Overture, 240, 249
Overture in D minor, 146
-- in B flat minor, 238
_Siegfried Idyl_, 235, 236, 237, 314
Symphony in C major, 146, 240, 329

CHORAL WORKS

_Greeting to Friedrich August the Beloved_, 245
_Hymn to the Czar Nicholas_, 242
_La Descente de la Courtille_, 242, 245
_Love-Feast of the Apostles, The_, 245
_New Year Cantata_, 241
_Re-Interment of Weber's Remains_, 245
_Weihegruss to King Friedrich August_, 245

SONGS AND ARIAS

Aria of Orovisto, 243
_Attente_, 243, 244
_Der Tannenbaum_, 242
_Dors, mon enfant_, 243
_Les Adieux de Marie Stuart_, 243, 245
_Les deux Grenadiers_, 244
_Mignonne_, 243
Romance of Max, 241, 242, 244
_Seven Compositions to Goethe's Faust_, 240, 242
_Tout n'est qu'images fugitives_, 243
_Vampyr_ Aria, 241

DRAMATIC WORKS AND SKETCHES

_Bianca und Giuseppe_, 260
_Die Bergwerke zu Falun_, 260
_Die Sarazenin_, 260
_Die glückliche Bärenfamilie_, 154 _n._, 260
_Friedrich Barbarossa_, 173, 205 _n._, 266
_Jesus of Nazareth_, 173, 266, 270, 319
_Siegfried's Tod_, 46, 173, 185, 266, 270 ff., 297 ff.
_Young Siegfried_, 299
_The Victors_, 319
_Wieland der Schmied_, 46, 207, 269

PROSE WORKS

_Account of the Bringing Home of Weber's Remains_, 172
_Application of Music to the Drama, The_, 234
_Art and Revolution_, 176 ff., 185
_Art-Work of the Future, The_, 176, 180 ff., 185
_Autobiographical Sketch_, 156, 172
_Beethoven_, 158, 165 _n._
_Bellini_, 153
_Communication to my Friends, A_, 204, 211, 220 n., 261, 337, 338
_Dramatic Song_, 151
_End of a Musician in Paris, The_, 138
_Franz Liszt's Symphonic Poems, On_, 162, 166 _n._
_German Music, On_, 156
_German Opera, The_, 147
_Happy Evening, A_, 160, 162
_Man and Existing Society_, 175
_Opera and Drama_, 122, 137, 138, 181, 185 ff., 208, 209, 211, 215,
220 n., 272
_Operatic Poetry and Composition_, 209
_Overture, The_, 163 ff.
_Pasticcio_, 148
_Pilgrimage to Beethoven, A_, 138, 156, 158
_Project for the Organisation of a German National Theatre_, 173,
175, 177 _n._
_Report upon a proposed German School of Music for Munich_, 152
_Revolution, The_, 175
_Royal Kapelle, The_, 174
_Speech at Weber's Grave_, 172
_Vaterlandsverein Speech_, 175
_Wibelungen, The_, 173

Wagner, Ottilie, 79, 332

-- Rosalie, 25, 154, 246

Wagner, Siegfried, 37, 118, 120, 133, 328

Wahnfried, editorial ways of, 36, 50, 86 _n._, 87 _n._, 90 _n._,
106 _n._, 131 _n._, 328, 333

Weber, 147, 150, 165, 168, 189, 220, 240, 245, 246, 247

Weingartner, 80 _n._

Weinlig, 238 ff.

Weissheimer, 126, 133, 140, 144

Weitzmann, 115

Werder, 45

Wesendonck, Mathilde, 2 _n._, 5, 6, 13, 16, 35, 37 ff., 43, 54, 56,
57, 69, 83 ff., 107, 108, 112, 114 ff., 120, 129, 131, 133, 237

Wesendonck, Otto, 24, 32, 33 _n._, 35, 39 _n._, 44, 47 _n._, 75, 81,
85 ff., 105, 107, 108, 133

Wilde, Oscar, 71, 208

Wille, Eliza, 81, 82, 99, 110, 116, 117

-- François, 24, 47 n., 82, 133

Winter, 154

Wittgenstein, Princess, 106 _n._, 129, 140, 207

Wolf, Hugo, 159, 308 ff., 310, 320 ff.

Wolfram, Clara. _See_ Clara Wagner

Wolzogen, Hans von, 42 _n._, 138

Zocher, Gustav, 330

THE END

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.

A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept.

Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.

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