Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . e went thereas Kapellmeister, and for two seasons con-ducted not only opera but also a series ofsymphony concerts, for which he himselfwrote two overtures, Columbus andRule Britannia. While there he andMinna Planer were married, and their do-mestic difficulties began shortly after, in1839, when Wagner once more found him-self without a situation, for his friend Holtissuddenly gave up the management of thetheatre. In Riga Wagner began the composition ofRienzi, for which he himself had writtenthe text, after Bulwer-Lyttons novel. Be-fore it Avas fini
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . e went thereas Kapellmeister, and for two seasons con-ducted not only opera but also a series ofsymphony concerts, for which he himselfwrote two overtures, Columbus andRule Britannia. While there he andMinna Planer were married, and their do-mestic difficulties began shortly after, in1839, when Wagner once more found him-self without a situation, for his friend Holtissuddenly gave up the management of thetheatre. In Riga Wagner began the composition ofRienzi, for which he himself had writtenthe text, after Bulwer-Lyttons novel. Be-fore it Avas finished, hoAvever, the composerand his Avife embarked in a sailing vessel,bound for Paris by Avay of London. Paris,the scene of Meyerbeers triumphs, Avas theMecca of opera composers, and Wagnersfrank intention Avas to enter the lists in com-petition for public favor. If his disappointment A\Tas keen, the per-sonal hardships and physical sufferingAvhich he had to undergo Avere even moreso. Even Avith Meyerbeers someAvhat luke- 288 RICHARD WAGNER. RICHARD WAGNER After a portrait by Lenbach warm assistance he could not get a hear-ing for Rienzi.* As for The Flying Dutchman, writtenand composed in Paris, he could only sell thetext to the Opera foe the use of a better-known composer, Pierre L. Dietsch, whopromptly set it to made-to-order and deserted, Wagner passed in Paristhe better part of three years of uttermisery, during which time he was obligedto do all sorts of musical hack work for thepublishers, and to write articles under vari-ous pseudonyms for the newspapers in orderto gain the bare means of sustenance. Dur-ing this period, however, he made the ac-quaintance of Liszt, Berlioz and other dis-tinguished men, some of whom were toplay important parts in his career. The end of his troubles came—for thetime being—with the acceptance of Rien-zi by the Dresden Opera. The FlyingDutchman, too, was accepted, throughMeyerbeers influence, in Berlin, and inApril, 1842, Wag
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