Grave Digger - Stand Up And Rock

While Wagner was preparing to publish “An Appeal to My Friends,” fate sent him an unexpected gift. The venerable Julia Ritter, the mother of Wagner’s young friend Karl Ritter, received a large inheritance and decided to do charity work: she offered the composer an annual rent of 800 talers. This solved his financial problems and clearly showed that Wagner was not created for writing works to order, even if this order does not go against his interests. Feeling boldly sending 200 thalers back to Weimar as an advance for Young Siegfried, Wagner decided to completely devote himself to the development of his initial large-scale Nibelungen project, as he wrote, “completely ignoring the question of whether our theaters will be able to cope with some parts of my work. ”