1872 - 82<\/b>: W. and family moves from Tribschen near Lucerne<\/a> to Bayreuth in April 1872. 21 Nov 1874 the Götterdämmerung<\/i> is finished. 1875: Several short stays with concerts in Vienna<\/a>. Continuing financial difficulties. 1877: Short stay in London<\/a>.<\/p> 1880<\/b>: W. stays for almost the whole year in Italy - mostly in Naples<\/a>.<\/p> Short stays in Palermo, Sicily and Venice from Nov 1881 to May 1882. Parsifal<\/i> is completed 13 Feb 1882 in Palermo.<\/p> 1882<\/b>: In September the family travels to Venice<\/a> where W. dies 13 Feb the next year.<\/p> 1883<\/b>: W. is buried in Bayreuth 18 Feb.<\/p>";
var Berlin = " 1847<\/b>: Wagner never had any real success in Berlin. Among several visits to Berlin, he stayed there for nearly 2 months in the Autumn 1847 to set up Rienzi<\/i>.<\/p>";
var Dresden = " 1814 - 27<\/b>: School attendance. (Residence in Eisleven 1821 - 22). Main interests: Language, history and mythology. His ideals were Weber and Der Freischütz<\/i>.<\/p> 1842 - 49<\/b>: Enormous success with Rienzi<\/i>. Hofkapellmeister<\/i> from 1843. Composes Tannhäuser<\/i> and Lohengrin<\/i>. The first prose draft for what will be The Ring of the Nibelung<\/i>. W. has to flee on 9 May, 1849 following his participation in the rise in Dresden. The flight went via Chemnitz and Weimar<\/a> and ended in Zurich<\/a>. For 11 years there is a warrant for arrest on W. in the German states, and he has to live in exile. (Details around W.'s revolutionary activities may be found in the article Richard Wagner: The Nibelungen-Myth<\/a>.)<\/p>";
var Bayreuth = " 1872 - 82: W. and family moves from Tribschen near Lucerne to Bayreuth in April 1872. 21 Nov 1874 the Götterdämmerung is finished. 1875: Several short stays with concerts in Vienna. Continuing financial difficulties. 1877: Short stay in London. 1880: W. stays for almost the whole year in Italy - mostly in Naples. Short stays in Palermo, Sicily and Venice from Nov 1881 to May 1882. Parsifal is completed 13 Feb 1882 in Palermo. 1882: In September the family travels to Venice where W. dies 13 Feb the next year. 1883: W. is buried in Bayreuth 18 Feb. 1847: Wagner never had any real success in Berlin. Among several visits to Berlin, he stayed there for nearly 2 months in the Autumn 1847 to set up Rienzi. 1814 - 27: School attendance. (Residence in Eisleven 1821 - 22). Main interests: Language, history and mythology. His ideals were Weber and Der Freischütz. 1842 - 49: Enormous success with Rienzi. Hofkapellmeister from 1843. Composes Tannhäuser and Lohengrin. The first prose draft for what will be The Ring of the Nibelung. W. has to flee on 9 May, 1849 following his participation in the rise in Dresden. The flight went via Chemnitz and Weimar and ended in Zurich. For 11 years there is a warrant for arrest on W. in the German states, and he has to live in exile. (Details around W.'s revolutionary activities may be found in the article Richard Wagner: The Nibelungen-Myth.) 1836 - 37: W. and Minna arrives in the autumn of 1836. They marries 24 November in the Tragheimer Kirche. On 1 Apr the next year, W. is appointed Musikdirektor at the Königsberger Theater. The residence in Königsberg does not last for long - in May the season is over, and the young couple is financially ruined. In August, they move on to Riga. 1813: Wagner\'s place of birth. Following the death of his father the same year, the family moves to Dresden. 1827 - 1833: School and studies. 1855: 4 spring months in London, return to Zurich. 1877: Short stay with concerts in the new Royal Albert Hall. 1859: Arrives in March from Venice. W. completes Tristan 6 Aug. Moves on to Paris in Sept. 1866 - 72: W. and family settles in Tribschen near Lucerne. 24 Oct 1867 Die Meistersinger is completed. Several short or longer stays in Munich in 1867 and 68. 5 Feb 1871 Siegfried is finished. 1872: Travels to Basle, Berlin, Weimar and Bayreuth to prepare the planned festival in Bayreuth. In April the family moves to Bayreuth. 1834 - 36: W. is Music Director at the travelling theatre company Theater in Bad Lauchstädt. His debut as an opera conductor with Don Giovanni. W. meets Minna Planer who later is to become his first wife. W. completes his second opera, Das Liebesverbot. 1862: After the fiasco in Paris, W. settles in the small town of Biebrich across the river from Mainz. In March the message arrives that he has received amnesty also in Sachsen. In the autumn he again visits Leipzig and Dresden - for the first time in 13 years. He moves to Vienna in November. 1864 - 65: King Ludwig II calls W. to Munich in the beginning of May. He pays off W.'s debts and gives him a secure yearly allowance. Cosima von Bülow with her two daughters moves in with W. in June. W. now plans to build a theatre specially for The Ring of the Nibelung. Little by little the authorities, the press and the population turns against W. In part this is because of W.'s attempts at meddling with the local politics, in part because of his consumption of money, in part because of the extramarital cohabitation. In December 1865 the family must leave Munich. In April 1866 they settle in the villa Tribschen by Lucerne. 1880: In the beginning of January, W. with family leaves Bavaria for Italy - for reasons of his health. Most of this year they reside in Naples, but they also visit other parts of Italy: Rome, Florence and Venice. Return to Bayreuth in November. 1839 - 42: W. completes Rienzi and Der fliegende Holländer and writes a series of articles and short stories, among others Pilgerfart zu Beethoven. Great financial difficulties. Moves in 1842 to Dresden. 1859 - 1862: In this period, Paris is one among many places Wagner occupies. Revision and new version of Tannhäuser. 1860: Travels to Karlsruhe, Vienna<\/a> etc. 1861: Scandal where parts of the audience destroys the performances of Tannhäuser. Renewed travel activity - mostly to Vienna<\/a>. Flees in February 1862 to Biebrich by Mainz. Spring 1827: The barely 14 years old W. walks from Dresden to Prague, more than 100 kilometers. Later in life he visited Prague many times, often to give concerts. 1837 - 39: W. is engaged as "Kapellmeister des Rigaschen stadttheaters". He conducts 24 operas with an average of 5 to 6 performances. In July 1839 W. and Minna flees - from creditors. After having illegally crossed the Russian border, they board the small sail vessel Thetis in a harbour near Königsberg. 29 July, the ship must seek port of refuge in Sandvika at Borøya near Tvedestrand, a little town at the southern coast of Norway. (Details from this sea journey may be found in the article Wagner in Norway.) By the way of Sandvika and London, W. and Minna ends up in Paris. 1864: W. flees 23rd March 1864 from Vienna to escape his creditors. He comes to Stuttgart 29th April. To his friend Weissheimer he says in desperation: "Ich bin am Ende...". 3rd May the cabinet secretary of the newly crowned King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Franz von Pfistermeister, finds W. at Hotel Marquardt. Pfistermeister gives W. a photograph of Ludwig and a ring, and the same afternoon he brings W. by train to Munich and to the young king. Ludwig pays off some of W.\'s debts and promises to take care of W.\'s everyday monetary needs. 1858 - 59: First stay in the city of channels - following his "escape" from Zürich, Minna and Matilde. Completes the second act of Tristan. W. goes to Lucerne in the end of March. 1882 - 83: Short stay in April. W. and family returns in September. 13 Feb 1883 W. dies in Venice. The funeral is in Bayreuth 18 Feb. 1860 - 61: Several short stays in connection with performances of operas. In the Autumn 1861 W. tries to produce Tristan here, but 72 rehearsals leads to nothing. 1862 - 64: W. moves to Vienna from Biebrich by Mainz. Travels to and concerts in Prague, Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, Budapest, Karlsruhe etc. In 1863 the relationship with Cosima von Bülow begins. 23rd March 1864 W. flees from Vienna - again to escape his creditors. To Stuttgart by the end of April. From here he is called to Munich by the king Ludwig II of Bavaria. 1875: Several stays in Vienna with concerts. 1849: Wagner fled from Dresden and the uprising there in 1849 via Weimar and Liszt's residence there and on to Zurich. According to Ernest Newman, Weimar meant much to Wagner, especially in the 1850\'s, "because he thought he saw there the nucleus of the new society he had dreamed of in \'Art and Revolution\' - a society that would share his conviction that the theatre (the ideal theatre of the future, of course) was the real goal of all mankind\'s striving, the real fulfilment of mankind's destiny, and that the ideal theatre would be the Wagnerian theatre." (Newman vol 2, pp 382-83) Wagner apparantly saw Liszt as the leader of this new humanity. 1861, 1872, 1873: Short visits to the town to visit Liszt. Other connections: Liszt performed Lohengrin for the first time in Weimar 28 August, 1850. This was at a time when Wagner had an warrant for arrest on himself in Germany, so he could therefore not be at the place! In a letter to Liszt, of 30 January 1852, Wagner writes of his plans for a first performance of his great drama of the Nibelungs: "... in irgend einer schönen Einöde, fern von dem Qualm und dem Industrie-Pestgeruche unserer städtischen Zivilisation: als solche Einöde könnte ich höchstens Weimar, gewiss aber keine grössere Stadt ansehen." 1833: W. gets his first appointment here, as a choirmaster. His first opera, Die Feen is completed 6 Jan 1834. 1849 - 58: After having fled from Dresden, W. ends up in Zürich. In 1849 and 50, several and frequent travels to Paris, Bordeaux etc. In the autumn 1853, travels to Spezia, Basle and Paris. In the spring 1855, W. stays 4 months in London. Moves 22 Aug 1857 to the Wesendonk villa just outside Zürich. Relationship with Matilde Wesendonk. W. went on to Venice in Aug 1858. 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