Ch. 1: Part II. 1842-1850 (Dresden)

Part II. 1842-1850 (Dresden)

‘Rienzi’

‘The Flying Dutchman’

Liszt, Spontini, Marschner, etc.

‘Tannhäuser’

Franck, Schumann, Semper, Gutzkow, Auerbach

‘Lohengrin’ (Libretto)

Ninth Symphony

Spohr, Gluck, Hiller, Devrient

Official Position.

Studies in Historical Literature

‘Rienzi’ at Berlin

Relations with the Management, Mother’s Death, etc.

Growing Sympathy with Political Events, Bakunin

The May Insurrection

Flight: Weimar, Zürich, Paris, Bordeaux, Geneva, Zürich