Excerpt from Life of Richard Wagner, Vol. 5
A Faust's life-weariness. - Zurich String-quartet; Beethoven's op. 131. - Carolyszt's Rheingold "indiscretion" and "Schumann" articles; Cornelius translator. - Resuscitation of an earlier overture : Faust in solitude, no Gretchen. Billow's analysis. Thematic details; problems of the revision. The "tone-poem" conducted at Zurich ; its reception elsewhere.
Und so ill mir das Dasein fine Last,
Der Tod erwiinseht, das Lebeti mir verhasst.
Goethe's Faust.
The motto chosen for his revised FAUST-overture exactly pictures Wagner's mood when entering the year 1855. Last November he had written Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein : "It really is too sad that I should have to live in this desert, cut off from you and Liszt Whatever you may say enjoining patience, and however many grievances may weigh upon yourselves, neither do you experience nor can you form a notion of the killing solitude to which I am condemned . . . True, I have been pottering away at the 'Walkure,' but it goes much slower than I thought at first. What I draft in the end is certainly the best that lies within my power; only, with my desolate life, the moods for work come ever rarer.
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