MUSI 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cola Di Rienzo, Franz Liszt, Prose Poetry
25 May 2016
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But he discovered that french opera is very superficial. Sold prose poem (he was desperate for money) of the flying dutchman to director of the paris opera: he called his libretti poems because he thought it was more artistic. He left paris and staged the flying dutchman in dresden. Rienzi in 1842: with meyerbeer"s help (whom he hated in the future: hitler loved rienzi, in hitler"s final hours he had an autographed score of rienzi. Franz liszt helps him, provided him with a place to stay. Otto"s wife, matthilde wesendonck, and wagner had an affair. Leaves minna, but paid for her apartment. Wagner stayed with the king in his castle. I then fly to him as to a lover. Thus we sit for hours on endd, lost in each other"s gaze. King ludwig ii had a ton of money, so he supported wagner a lot. King ludwig ii was upset that wagner was banished.
