Megadeth - Time: The End

By that time, Liszt had already heard that Wagner’s dream of his own theater was no longer a chimera. On his first visit, Bayreuth, noted by Richter, liked Wagner so much that the idea to create here, amidst the picturesque wooded hills of Franconia, a “stronghold of the art of the future” with obligatory annual Wagner music festivals did not leave him from now on. Wagner officially announced that the first festival in Bayreuth is scheduled for 1873, although not a single legal formality has yet been completed. True, the most important thing was the belief of many people in the victory of the Wagner affair.