rds." 45-72

CHAPTER IV.

EXILE.

Visit to Liszt--Flight to Foreign Lands--Three
Pamphlets--"Lohengrin" Performed--Wagner's Musical Ideas Expressed
in Words--Resumption of the Nibelungen Poem--The Idea of the
Poem--Its Religious Element--The First Music-Drama--In Zurich--New
Art Ideas--Increasing Fame--"Tristan and Isolde"--Analysis of this
Work--In Paris Again--The Amnesty--Tannhaeuser at the "Grand
Opera"--"Lohengrin" in Vienna--Resurrection of the "Mastersingers
of Nuremberg"--Final Return to Germany 73-105

CHAPTER V.

MUNICH.

Successful Concerts--Plans for a New Theatre--Offenbach's Music
Preferred--Concerts Again--New Hindrances and Disappointments--King
Louis of Bavaria--Rescue and Hope--New Life--Schnorr--"Tannhaeuser"
Reproduced--Great Performance of "Tristan"--Enthusiastic
Applause--Death of Schnorr--Opposition of the Munich Public--Unfair
Attacks upon Wagner--He goes to Switzerland--The
"Meistersinger"--The Rehearsals--The Successful
Performance--Criticisms 106-131

CHAPTER VI.

BAIREUTH.

A Vienna Critic--"Judaism in Music"--The War of 1870--Wagner's
Second Wife--"The Thought of Baireuth"--Wagner-Clubs--The "Kaiser
March"--Baireuth--Increasing Progress--Concerts--The Corner-Stone
of the New Theatre--The Inaugural Celebration--Lukewarmness of the
Nation--The Preliminary Rehearsals--The Summer of 1876--Increasing
Devotion of the Artists--The General Rehearsal--The Guests--The
Memorable Event--Its Importance--A World-History in Art-Deeds 132-158

CHAPTER VII.

PARSIFAL.

A German Art--Efforts to maintain the Acquired Results--Concerts
in London--Recognition Abroad and Lukewarmness at Home--The
"Nibelungen" in Vienna--"Parsifal"--Increasing Popularity
of Wagner's Music--Judgments--Accounts of the "Parsifal"
Representations--The Theatre Building--"Parsifal," a National
Drama--Its Significance and Idea--Anti-Semiticism--The Jewish
Spirit--Wagner's Standpoint--Synopsis of "Parsifal"--The Legend
of the Holy Grail--Its Symbolic Importance--Art in the Service
of Religion--Beethoven and Wagner--"Redemption to the Redeemer."
159-197

LAST DAYS AND DEATH OF WAGNER. 197-204

THE LIFE OF WAGNER.

CHAPTER I.

1813-1831.

WAGNER'S EARLY YOUTH.

His Birth--The Fat