Note 27 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
Yet Glasenapp (Das Leben Richard Wagners, ii. (2), 108) speaks of Wagner having "forced his entry" into Munich with Tannhäuser "in spite of the bitter opposition of Lachner." In dealing with Wagner's Munich days, again, Glasenapp speaks of Lachner as being "from of old an embittered opponent, whom the most obliging and amiable behaviour could not reconcile" (iv. 43).