Chapter 5

MUNICH.

Successful Concerts--Plans for a New Theatre--Offenbach's Music Preferred--Concerts Again--New Hindrances and Disappointments--King Louis of Bavaria--Rescue and Hope--New Life--Schnorr--"Tannhaeuser" Reproduced--Great Performance of "Tristan"--Enthusiastic Applause--Death of Schnorr--Opposition of the Munich Public--Unfair Attacks upon Wagner--He goes to Switzerland--The "Meistersinger"--The Rehearsals--The Successful Performance--Criticisms 106-131