Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . ius. In 1871 he settled in Bayreuth, thequiet Bavarian town which he had selectedas the site of his festival theatre, andin 1872 he was able to lay the foundation-stone of the great edifice. The funds forthe enterprise were eventually raisedthrough the organization of Wagner So-cieties throughout Germany, and the firstcomplete performances of the Rnigtetralogy took place in the new buildingin the presence of Emperor William I, KingLudAvig of Bavaria and the leading artistsof many nations. Wagner was now at the pinnacle of hissuccess. Meantime his p
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . ius. In 1871 he settled in Bayreuth, thequiet Bavarian town which he had selectedas the site of his festival theatre, andin 1872 he was able to lay the foundation-stone of the great edifice. The funds forthe enterprise were eventually raisedthrough the organization of Wagner So-cieties throughout Germany, and the firstcomplete performances of the Rnigtetralogy took place in the new buildingin the presence of Emperor William I, KingLudAvig of Bavaria and the leading artistsof many nations. Wagner was now at the pinnacle of hissuccess. Meantime his private relation lifehad undergone considerable change. Theunhappy union with Minna had come to anend some time ago, and in 1870 the com-poser married Cosima, the daughter ofFranz Liszt, who had been the wife of Hansvon Bulow till the year before. A son,Siegfried Wagner, was born soon after, andthis furnished the occasion for the compo-sition of the charming Siegfried Idyll,based on themes from the opera. There remains to be recorded only the. THE VALKYRIES RIDE After a painting by Hendrich composition of Wagners last work, Par-sifal. That he intended this, not perhapsas the crowning achievement of his career,but as a wrork different and apart from theothers, is indicated by the designation Con-secration Festival Plaj* (Biihiienweih-festspiel). In a letter to King Ludwig ofSeptember 28, 1880, the master wrote: In-deed, how can and may any action in whichthe sublimest mysteries of the Christianfaith are openly put on the stage be per-formed in theatres like ours—it was withquite the right feeling for this that I en-titled Parsifal a Sacred Festival this reason also I must dedicate aspecial stage to it, and this can only bethat of my Festival Playhouse standingapart in Bayreuth. There and there aloneshall Parsifal be performed for all futuretime: Never shall Parsifal be produced atany other theatre for the amusement of thepublic! The public has decreed
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