. Richard Wagner : his life and works . SIEGL1NDA aids Siegmund in drawing the sword from the ash tree, 1 i r 1 1 1 whereon they have engraved their initials within two flam- tllC dlCl 01 tile mOntU tneing hearts. (From Schultze and Muller, The Ring ofthe Nibelttngen, fOVal Will WaS QTatineQ 1881). •> & the first performance tookplace on September^ 22d, thanks to a fortnights hardwork on the part of the new leader, Wullner, the singersVogl and Kindermann, and the clever machinist material end was at last attained, but the moral effectwas doubtful. At the first performance, the au
. Richard Wagner : his life and works . SIEGL1NDA aids Siegmund in drawing the sword from the ash tree, 1 i r 1 1 1 whereon they have engraved their initials within two flam- tllC dlCl 01 tile mOntU tneing hearts. (From Schultze and Muller, The Ring ofthe Nibelttngen, fOVal Will WaS QTatineQ 1881). •> & the first performance tookplace on September^ 22d, thanks to a fortnights hardwork on the part of the new leader, Wullner, the singersVogl and Kindermann, and the clever machinist material end was at last attained, but the moral effectwas doubtful. At the first performance, the audience wereundecided, almost hostile, and the German patience, everywhere proverbial, gave out before these four interminabletableaux, with no entracte nor moment of rest. It must besaid that this delay of a month had made a great change inthe composition of the audience ; that very many of the mostfaithful partisans, after having danced attendance for so long. THE Rf OLD. 1 — CENE I. RICHARD WAGNER 243 in the month of August, had not been able or willing toreturn in September, so that The Rheingold was played toa public less enthusiastic, less acquainted with the composer,and even inclined to regard his innovations the work was performed, and that was the main point;its honor was saved. A romancer-poet, in narrating these incidents, in whichhe claims to have played a prominent part, asserts that TheRheingold was delayed a whole year; such a slip of thememory on a very important point proves that these poeticaccounts are not always to be trusted. On the otherhand he has drawn avery life-like portrait ofWagner at this Sometimes wewere seated, but he,never! No, I do notrecollect ever to haveseen him sit down, un-less it were on a pianoor a table. Back andforth, all over the greatroom, moving the chairs about, diving into all his pocketsfor his snuff-box, always lost, or his spectacles which some-times dangled from
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