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Présentation de l'éditeur
Caroline Bettelheim; Daland, Karl Mayerhofer; Erik, Gustav Walter. John Nepomuk Beck sang the Plying Dutchman, and the conductor was Heinrich Esser. In the yea 1862, after engagements in Pressburg and Dantzic, I myself became a member of the Royal Opera Company in Vienna, and this very year Richard Wagner began his career in that city. He was presenting his Tristan, which after forty-seven preliminary rehearsals was finally set aside as utterly impracticable for the stage! At the same time, however, he was striving to interest the Viennese in his works by giving those wonderful con certs in their great theatre. He then lived at the Hotel Kaiserin Elizabeth, and as my rooms were in that same quarter, it often chanced that I met him on the street going to and from rehearsals, generally talking to him self, and usually flourishing his great red bandanna The Master shair was brown in those days, and he invariably wore a high silk hat and a long frock coat never by any chance buttoned up. His presence brought life and swing into the artist world of Vienna, and the question of the hour was, Do we, or do we not, approve of these innovations? ?? I my self together with most of the younger musicians was a most enthusiastic partisan of the Master, and took a gleeful share in his triumphs at those concerts. The greatest of these, perhaps, was the Tausig Concert, which took place in the huge Redouten Saal, Wagner him self conducting. It opened with the Overture to Freischiitz, and before its finish, the audience broke exit in uncontrollable enthusiasm. Even the Master himself seemed satisfied with this performance and at its close called up Richard Levy, the leader of the horns, with whom he had worked untiringly at the rehearsals and whom he now publicly embraced for his magnificent playing.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Therese Stilke-S essi of Vienna, who gave me my first introduction to the genius of Richard Wagner and fired me with an early enthusiasm for his new and wonderful style. This remarkable woman was training me for the stage and taught me among other things the part of Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhiiuser. I mention this particularly as in those years the early forties it was rare indeed to find a singer with this r61e in his repertoire, and managers then found it most difficult to cast this important part. Being young and impressionable, I soon became an ardent disciple of the Master, yet even I at this time, in spite of my devotion to the cause, found it utterly impossible one night to sit through an entire performance of The Flying Dutchman given at the Royal Opera in Vienna under exceptionally favourable circumstances. I frankly confess that I left, thoroughly bored with that long duet, at the close of the second act. I was then a mere boy of nineteen, however, and my judgment could hardly have been considered quite sound.
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