Note 40 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
Mein Leben, p. 829. Writing against Hanslick in the Musikalisches Wochenblatt of 1877, Wilhelm Tappert gave an account of these two episodes as he had received it from Wagner himself. Wagner had presumably copied from Mein Leben the two passages I have just cited, for they agree almost word for word with the Wochenblatt article. See Glasenapp, Das Leben Richard Wagners, iii. 352, 405, 483. Hanslick seems to have denied the authenticity of Wagner's version of what happened at Standhartner's.