Chapter 4

EXILE.

Visit to Liszt--Flight to Foreign Lands--Three Pamphlets--"Lohengrin" Performed--Wagner's Musical Ideas Expressed in Words--Resumption of the Nibelungen Poem--The Idea of the Poem--Its Religious Element--The First Music-Drama--In Zurich--New Art Ideas--Increasing Fame--"Tristan and Isolde"--Analysis of this Work--In Paris Again--The Amnesty--Tannhaeuser at the "Grand Opera"--"Lohengrin" in Vienna--Resurrection of the "Mastersingers of Nuremberg"--Final Return to Germany 73-105