Wagenseil, Johann Christoph, 335
Wagner, Albert, 2, 15;
wife and daughter, 2
Wagner, Cosima, 133, 134, 153, 160;
see also Von Bülow
Wagner, Friedrich, 1
Wagner, Johanna, 2, 65, 138
Wagner, Richard, abandonment of career contemplated, 119;
affection of, 103;
ambition to reach Paris, 30;
America, asked to visit, 104, 159;
amnesty, 118;
ancestry, 1;
appearance of, 162;
appreciates his own genius, 121;
approach of death, 149, 150;
artistic aims of, 167 et seq.;
artistic impulse, 158, 159;
art-theories, see separate title;
attachment to Cosima von Bülow, beginning of, 125;
attitude toward public, 55, 67;
autobiographic sketch, 52;
autobiography, unpublished, 153;
ballet and, 487;
Bayreuth, goes to, 136;
Bayreuth, work at, 137 et seq.;
Biebrich, visit to, 120;
birth, 2;
boyhood, 3 et seq.;
boyish tragedies, 4;
Buddhistic drama, rumours about, 153;
burial of, 152;
calumniated, 130;
character of, 29, 103, 154 et seq.;
chorus master at Würzburg, 15;
church music, director of, 58;
clothes, rich, love of, 157;
"Communication to My Friends," see separate title;
concert tours, 118, 119, 144;
conducting, essay on, 48;
conductor at Dresden, 56, 59, 60;
conductor at Königsberg, 25, 27 et seq.;
conductor at London, 94 et seq., 144;
conductor at Magdeburg, 19;
conductor at Riga, 31;
conducts at Zurich, 89;
conducts juvenile symphony, 151;
conducts "Flying Dutchman," 54, 97;
corner-stone of Festspielhaus laid by, 138;
Cosima von Bülow, love for, 125, 130;
critics on, 69, 142;
death, 152;
debts, troubled by, 74, 85, 95, 116, 120;
depression, 158;
despair, period of, 119-121;
disappointed by public misunderstanding, 53, 55, 119, 121, 147, 148, 160, 161;
dissatisfied with theatre, 32, 174, 175, 179;
Dresden, flight from, 79;
Dresden, work in, 59 et seq.;
drudgery in Paris, 46, 47 et seq.;
dual individuality, 154 et seq.;
dyspepsia, 92, 94, 151;
early models, 16;
early musical studies, 5 et seq.;
enemies of, 155;
erysipelas, 92;
extravagant habits, 157 et seq.;
faints at rehearsal, 149;
Fantaisie Castle, lives in, 136;
Fatherland Union, speech before, 75;
final illness, 151;
finding himself, 53-56;
first compositions, 7, 8;
first compositions published, 9 et seq.;
see also separate titles;
friendship with Liszt, 74, 80;
friends of, 155;
funeral in Venice, 152;
funeral in Bayreuth, 152;
Geneva, visits, 129;
habits of, 156;
heart trouble, 149-151;
household, 150;
improvidence of, 83, 85, 86, 157, 158;
insomnia, 94;
Italy, visits to, 94, 110, 147;
King Ludwig's friendship, 122 et seq., 128;
King Ludwig's friendship, scandals about, 114, 128;
Königsberg period, 25, 27 et seq.;
Lachner's prize symphony, objects to conducting, 99;
Leipsic period, 17;
"Lohengrin," first heard by Wagner, 92, 117;
London, concerts in, 100, 101;
London, criticism in, 102;
London, critics offended, 100;
London, first visit to, 34;
London, residences in, 99;
London, second visit to, 96 et seq.;
London Philharmonic Society, conductor of, 97 et seq.;
Lucerne, visits, 110, 129;
luxury, love of, 156, 157;
manners of, 156;
Marienbad, visit to, 64;
marriage to Minna Planer, 25, 27 et seq., 83, 160;
marriage to Cosima von Bülow, 132-134, 160;
meets Meyerbeer, 36;
mother of, 2;
Munich, goes to, 123;
Munich, leaves, 129;
Munich, opposition in, 128;
myth in dramas, 72;
see also separate title;
Nibelungen Lied taken up as a subject, 73;
see also separate titles: "Nibelungen Lied," "Siegfried's Death," and "Der Ring des Nibelungen";
opposition to, 63, 67, 68, 94, 100, 102, 112, 114;
Palace, Vendramin, 150;
Palestrina, admirer of, 58;
Paris, first sojourn in, 36, 37, 38 et seq.;
Paris, revisited, 82, 103;
Paris, second sojourn in, 112;
Paris, concerts in, 112;
Paris, leaves for Germany, 48;
Paris, leaves for Vienna, 116;
Paris, residences in, 39, 46, 112;
"Parsifal," work during rehearsals of, 149;
Penzing, visit to, 120;
Peps, his dog, 92, 103;
performances unsatisfactory to, 161;
poverty, 95;
Prague, visit to, 14;
prose writings, beginning of, 67;
see also separate titles;
purpose of his life, 167;
Queen Victoria and, 102;
Religious mysticism, 148;
Revolution of 1848, 71, 73 et seq.;
Riga engagement, 31;
Riga engagement, its end, 33;
rudeness of, 155;
school days, 4;
Schopenhauer's influence on, 108;
search for by King Ludwig's messengers, 123;
Seelisberg, visit to, 103;
sense of humour, 99, 100;
sensuous enjoyment, 19;
separation from first wife, 119;
silk garments, fond of, 157;
songs, 42;
see also separate titles;
Starnberg, Lake, villa on, 123;
starving his wife, charged with, 130;
suicidal thoughts, 158;
symphony in C, 11, 12;
symphony in C performed in Venice, 151;
"Tannhäuser," effect of its failure on Wagner's life, 67;
Teplitz, visit to, 19, 50;
Triebschen, settles at, 129;
Vendramin Palace, goes to, 150;
Vendramin Palace, household in, 150;
Vendramin Palace, life in, 150;
Venice, first visit, 110;
Venice, last days in, 150 et seq.;
Vevay, visits, 129;
Vienna, visits, 117;
Wahnfried, goes to, 136;
weakness in character, 158;
Weber's remains removed by, 60;
Weimar, goes to, 80, 118;
Wesendonck, Mrs., intrigue with, 110, 111;
worship of Weber, 5, 6;
Würzburg period, 15 et seq.;
Zurich, concerts at, 106;
Zurich, goes to, 81;
Zurich, return to from London, 103
Wagner, Rosalie, 2, 15
Wagner, Siegfried, 133, 153
Wagner Societies formed, 138;
consolidated, 153
Wagnerites, English, 103
"Walküre, die"; see "Die Walküre"
Weber, art-theories of, 175
Weber, influence on Wagner, 175
Weber's remains removed by Wagner, 60
Weinlig, Theodore, 9
Wesendonck, letter to, 111
Wesendonck, Mathilde, 107, 110, 111
"Wieland the Smith," 89
Wilhelmj, 144
Wille, 94, 120, 121, 123
Wittgenstein, Countess, 105
Wolff, O.L.B., 81
Wolfram von Eschenbach, history of, 448;
"Parzival," story of, 457
Wolzogen, Hans von, 147
Würzburg, Konrad von, "Der Schwanen-Ritter," 272
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FOOTNOTES
[1] Quoted from "Wagner and his Works," by Henry T. Finck. 2 vols., New York, 1893.
[2] See Appendix A.