Note 21 — INTRODUCTION

Mein Leben, pp. 248, 249. The word "friend" is put in inverted commas by Wagner himself. The passage to which he refers will be found in the Bericht über eine neue Pariser Oper, in G.S., i. 244. He there mentions 1500 francs as the sum paid by the Munich director for the libretto. In the original article in the Abendzeitung, according to Mr. Ashton Ellis, the amount was given as 3000 francs, and Lachner was referred to not as Kapellmeister Lachner, but "der brave Lachner."