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My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Part II. 1842-1850 (Dresden)

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‘Rienzi’ ‘The Flying Dutchman’ Liszt, Spontini, Marschner, etc. ‘Tannhäuser’ Franck, Schumann, Semper, Gutzkow, Auerbach ‘Lohengrin’ (Libretto) Ninth Symphony Spohr, Gluck, Hiller, Devrient Official Position. Studies in Historical Literature ‘Rienzi’ at Berlin Relations with the Management, Mother’s Death, etc. Growing Sympathy with Political Events, Bakunin The May Insurrection Flight: Weimar, Zürich, Paris, Bordeaux, Geneva, Zürich ILLUSTRATIONS FRONTISPIECE FOR VOLUME I Illustration: Richard Wagner in 1842, from the Portrait by E. Kietz. FRONTISPIECE FOR VOLUME II Richard Wagner about 1872 by Lenbach. Original in the possession of Frau Cosima Wagner These frontispieces are used by the courtesy of Mr. F. Bruckmann. MY LIFE
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1. Chapter 1 2. PART II. 1842-1850 (Dresden) 3. Part I. 1813-1842 4. Part II. 1842-1850 (Dresden) 5. PART I 6. episode remained firmly imprinted on my mind. Two years later, while 7. introduction into the family by the merriest and wildest jests: for my 8. introduction of that work such as even the greatest theatres could 9. introduction of this beat that prevented me from carrying out my plan 10. introduction to M. Leon Pillet, the recently appointed manager of the 11. PART II 12. introduction of dramatic themes. I therefore designed a great choral 13. part I had played in the production of Iphigenia, which he compared 14. part I played in the meetings of this committee, as in everything else, 15. 1864. All this was new and strange to me, and I was still inclined to

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