consummate skill of the musician than to the character of the man. Outside his musicianship the man had interests in everything human--in painting, sculpture, drama, poetry and prose. He made what we consider mistakes, as what man does not who is a product of a period of passionate revivals of human and humanising ideals?--but how few they are! They hardly count. He absorbed all the culture of all the centuries. The Greek and Latin poets were as familiar to him as were the English. Hardly a great book had been written which he did not know familiarly. There is not a great picture or piece of sculpture in Europe he did not know. All came as grist to his mill. I end this book by joyfully hailing him as one of the half-dozen greatest minds the ages have produced--the equal of Shakespeare, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and Michael Angelo: a man it is an honour to have known as it is a disgrace to have scorned--the one man born into the last century that one can absolutely, without reservation, praise. INDEX _Abendzeitung_ (Dresden), 75 Apel, August, 41, 51 Auber, D.F.E., _Masaniello_, 47, 89; compared with Meyerbeer, 67, 68 Avenarius, Eduard, marries Cäcilie Geyer, 72 Bakunin, Michael, 136, 196 Baumgärtner, Wilhelm, 209 Bayreuth, 71, 323, 325-329, 400, 407, 409, 410 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 25, 26, 330, 331, 347, 350, 356, 371, 408, 416; his influence on Wagner, 33-35, 42, 62; arrangements of, by Wagner, 37; _Fidelio_, 148 Bellini, Vincenzo, 50, 92, 116, 150, 178 Bennett, Joseph, 328 Berlioz, Hector, Wagner's criticism on, 71; tragedy of his life, 72; praises the _Flying Dutchman_, 128; in London, 225; his relations with Wagner, 226; his "Ride to the Abyss," 370 Bethmann, Heinrich, 52, 54 Bispham, David, 277 Brahms, Johannes, 164 Brangaena, 245-248 Brazil, Wagner receives a commission from, 230, 237 Brendel, Karl Franz, 50, 218 Brockhaus, Friedrich, marries Louise Wagner, 32 Bülow, Cosima von, and Wagner, 60, 323-325 Bülow, Hans von, 71, 250, 418; serves his apprenticeship under Wagner, 208; married to Cosima Liszt, 323, 324 _Communication to my Friends_, 219 Cornelius, Peter, 71, 418 Cusins, W.G., 46, 134 Dannreuther, Edward, 37, 67 Davison, J.W., 46 Dietsch, Pierre, 80 Dorn, Heinrich, 32, 37, 39, 40, 57 _Dusk of the Gods, The_, 178, 188, 325, 356, 373, 398; analysis and criticism, 400-406 Dvoràk, Anton, compared with Wagner, 291, 292 Elgar, Sir Edward, 291 _End in Paris, An_, 212, 213 _Europa_, 75 _Feen, Die_, 42, 47, 48, 50, 52, 56, 60-63. 72, 86, 93, 137 Feuerbach, Ludwig, 232, 408 Fischer, Wilhelm, 76, 126, 205, 206, 220, 231 _Flying Dutchman, The_, 65, 66, 80, 81, 127, 128, 137, 170, 187, 219, 243, 356, 385; analysis and criticism, 94-120; produced at Zurich, 208 _Gazette Musicale, La_, 70, 75 Gewandhaus Concerts, 33, 45, 46 Geyer, Cäcilie, 14, 16, 30, 72 Geyer, Ludwig, 4, 6-14; marries Frau Wagner, 8; his death, 14 Geyer, goldsmith at Eisleben, 11, 17