Amon Amarth - Releasing Surturs Fire

Here we will have to run a little ahead to put an end to the consideration of the difficult relationship between Ludwig II and Wagner. Until the end of his life, the Bavarian king remained faithful to the ideals of their friendship, despite repeated “conflicts at a distance” (in particular, as we have already mentioned, he was deeply wounded by the revealed fraud on the part of Wagner, who insisted on his “testimony” testimony refuting the composer's love affair and Cosima). And yet, according to V. Alexandrova, “it was the best time of his life, a period of hopes and expectations, faith in beauty and people. But Ludwig did not cease to be king for a single minute, and when the throne claimed its rights, everything else was sacrificed to him. “Little by little, the royal, in the sense in which it crystallized once and for all in Ludwig’s imagination, began to obscure the image of Wagner.”Gradually, the cult of the composer was replaced in the minds of Ludwig II by the cult of the king - Wagner gave way to Louis XIV.