New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-03

SeTtasn wagner, who was mitch
compromised in the revolt at prea.
den and we believe must have been
connected with the troubles recent,v
IN Austria, has for the past year been
living IN Zurich, where he has been
asked to take the place of director
OF orchestra in a theater and where
according to reliable information ;s
one of the personages most noted in
league with the revolutionary section
OF intrigues in Switzerland. He has
relations with certain Haimberger.
OF Leopold, who also is refugee in
| Switzerland, and both of them are in
touch with Bohemia and Galizia. I
have the honor Of inviting your S. v.
to obtain all possible information on
the antecedents and early history of
| Wagner, who, according to certain
information, is native of Bohemia"
List was placed under the vigilance
of the police and correspondence in re-
gard to his activities was carried on
between Herr Hinkeldy. president of
the Berlin police. and Won Kempen,
head of the state police at Vienna.
i One of these letters written in 1854
from Berlin discusses LISTS political
relations with Wagner:
"The pianist List, living at weimar.
is working in league with Richard
! Wagner in very special way. Not
only does he send him funds, but also
uses his influence at court to further
his projects. Similar relations Richard
Wagner has with the Court of Bavaria
Inquiries must be continued and / will
communicate to you anything of inn
portance of which / learn
A continued information service was
kept up between the two police forces
-Four years later Richard Wagner, be-
ing in poor health and suffering from
rheumatism, decided to leave Switzer-
land for Italy, where the doctors said
he would soon recover from the effects
of overwork and deep mental and moral
depression. He delayed fulfilling their
orders, but was soon forced to seek a
inilder climate than that of Zurich.
The Austrian Ambassador at Berne
gave the composer permission to go to
Venice and stay there, but denied him
the right of visiting other states under
the imperial rule.
1t was on August 80 that Wag-
ner journeyed to Venice and took
up his residence in the Giustiniani
Palace, where tablet concentrating
his visit has been placed. Here he
composed the second act of Tristan
and Isolde" The police were notified
lose sight Of him. They sent report
to Vienna five days after his arrival,
which reads thus:
"Venice, 4th of September, 1858.
Richard Wagner arrived here On the
30th of August. He is in very bad
health. He has Swiss passport and
has planned to remain in Venice six
months, or possibly year. He lives
very retired, quiet life, and is await
ing the visit Of his friend List, the
celebrated pianist from Weimar."
! Judging by the number of reports
from headquarters at Vienna not to
trian secret police were kept very busy
| by Wagner's residence in Venice. The
second day after the first short report
the Director of police, Franceschini,
sent to Won Hamper, at Vienna, a long
letter, in which interesting details Of
| Wagner's life in Venice are given.
81 am answering the telegram sent
! by Your Excellency in regard to Rich
ard Wagner's visit here, Of which 1
wish to communicate the following de-
tails, from reliable source, and also
| to complete with minute particulars
| the details of his life. AS you know,
he was, until May, 1849, director of
the orchestra in Dresden (Hofkapell-
meister). During the revolutionary
movement which took place there in
| that year he was so greatly COM
| promised that he could not return to
| Saxony He created for himself new
! fatherland in Switzerland, at Zurich,
where he lived quite extraneous to any
| political movement, devoting himself
entirely to his profession. He lived
only for mis- music and found a new
outlet for his genius in composition.
He is now known as the leader Of the
music of the future and head of a
musical movement which will revolu-
tionize that of the past. His operate
1 productions Gone of which, produced
at the Court Opera House at Vienna,
'Lohengrin,' has been warmly received)
have gained ground throughout Ger
many and especially in court circles
where many expressions of the great
esteem he Is held in are often heard.
His doctors counseled him to live in
1 southern climate for year at least.
/ When he is in creative mood moth
ing can move him nor can any one rea-
! son with him, and for this reason he
refused 90 leave Zurich; but as his
health was seriously impaired he was
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