Philharmonic Society, the, 33, 45, 46, 134; concerts conducted by Wagner, 220-226 _Pilgrimage to Beethoven, A_, 213 Pillet, Léon, 80 Planer, Minna, marries Wagner, 53, 54. _See_ Wagner, Minna. Poe, Edgar Allen, 330 Poland, Wagner's sympathy with, 41, 43 Praeger, Ferdinand, 43, 68, 200, 208, 225, 238 Raymund, his "magic dramas," 44 Reinecke, Carl, 33, 45, 46 Reissiger, Gottlieb, 77, 79, 123-125 _Rhinegold, The_, 209, 299, 350, 351, 354, 358, 376, 383, 385, 396; composition of, 332-334; analysis and criticism, 337-349 _Rienzi_, 55, 61, 62, 68, 69, 73, 74, 81, 82, 117, 127, 128; completed and sent to Dresden, 75-80; accepted, 80; Meyerbeer's influence on, 84, 85; analysis and criticism, 86-93; its success, 91, 121; a failure at Weimar, 237 Rietz, Julius, portrait of Wagner by, 206 _Ring of the Nibelung, The_, 105, 111, 137,176, 207-209, 226-230, 320, 323, 325, 378; first cycle given at Bayreuth, 327-329; summary of its growth, 330-334; analysis of its main dramatic motive, 334-337; Schopenhauer's criticism, 342, _see_ also the separate operas Ritter, Alexander, 208 Ritter, Frau, 199, 208 Roeckel, August, 126, 132, 133, 196 Rossini, G.A., 55, 407; _William Tell_, 47; _Stabat Mater_, 213 Sainton, Prof., 225 _Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg_, 72, 82, 128 _Saracen Young Woman_, 81, 82 Schlesinger, Maurice, 69, 70, 75, 82, 121 Schopenhauer, his influence on Wagner, 231-233, 236, 265, 408; his criticism on the _Ring_, 342, 397 Schröder-Devrient, Wilhelmine, 50, 76-79, 160 Schubert's _Erl-king_, 355 Schumann, Clara, 45 Schumann, Robert, 51; on _Tannhäuser_, 163, 164; on _Lohengrin_, 165, 177 Scribe, Eugène, 74, 85, 97 Semper, Gottfried, 325 Shaw, Mr. Bernard, 20 Shedlock, Mr. J.S., 220 _Siegfried_, 200-202, 227-230, 325, 332, 414; analysis and criticism, 378-399 _Siegfried's Death_, 227-230, 332, 334, 383 _Siegfried Idyll_, 59, 60 Spohr, Ludwig, 294, 350; produces the _Flying Dutchman_ at Cassel, 127; on _Tannhäuser_, 149, 272 Spontini, Gasparo, 62, 116, 150, 178, 187; Wagner's essay on, 219 Strauss, Johann, 44 Sulzer, Jakob, 209 Symphony in C major, 41, 42, 44, 45, 56-59, 72, 73, 415 Swinburne, A.C., 415, 418 _Tannhäuser_, 30, 60, 72, 82, 92, 128, 137-140, 219, 341, 343, 358, 376, 384. 385; analysis and criticism, 140-164; production and reception, 147, 148; opinions on, 163, 164; produced by Liszt at Weimar, 164 Tausig, Karl, 71, 418 Thomä, Jeannette, 23 Tichatschek, 78, 147 Tieck, Ludwig, _Tannhäuser_, 30 Tomaschek, Wenzel, 45 "Triebschen," 323, 395 _Tristan_, 105, 106, 109, 111, 137, 187, 333, 341, 343, 344, 353, 365, 375. 377, 395, 398, 399, 414; rehearsed at Vienna and abandoned, 231; folly of commentators on, 234-236, 266; intended for Rio, 230, 237; completed, 230, 238; produced at Munich (1865), 237, 239, 321; origin of, 237, 238; preliminaries of the story, 239-241; analysis and criticism, 241-277