Aina - Silver Maiden

In pacified Wagner, interest in Siegfried woke up again, and he decided to proceed to its musical embodiment. September 22 was a general sketch. And right in front of the house in which Wagner lived, a tin-master settled, all day long plaguing the composer with his deafening knock. “Anger at a neighbor,” admitted Wagner, “gave me a moment of emotional elevation to motivate Siegfried's fierce antics against the“ insufferable blacksmith “Mime.” Truly, one can say: fate in the person of the unknown Zurich tinsmith knocked on the door. Who knows what the fate of Wagner would have been if such a restless neighbor had not settled near him? The more rapid development of events was prevented by the arrival of Liszt on October 13 and the departure of the Vezendonks in Paris. In Wagner’s house, a real “musical life” began to last for six weeks,during which the "neighbor-smith" was completely drowned out by the Listov piano. But when Wagner saw off a friend in Rorschach on November 27 and returned to his former way of life, the problem made itself felt with renewed vigor.