Chapter 3

REVOLUTION IN LIFE AND ART.

Success and Recognition--Hofkapellmeister to the Saxon Court--New Clouds--"Tannhaeuser" Misunderstood--The Myths of "The Flying Dutchman" and "Tannhaeuser"--Aversion to Meyerbeer--The Religious Element--"Lohengrin"--The Idea of "Lohengrin"--Wagner's Revolutionary Sympathies--The Revolution of 1848--The Poetic Part of "Siegfried's Death"--The Revolt in Dresden--Flight from Dresden--"Siegfried Words." 45-72