Mest - Living Dead

Finally, in the foyer of the Grand Opera, the piano rehearsals of the Tannhäuser began, which lasted until a new year, 1861 (a total of 164 (!) Rehearsals were held). The forced break in them was caused by Wagner's disease in November 1860, when he fell for a long time with typhoid fever, which almost brought him to the grave. Maria Calergis helped the sick composer with all her might: she invited the best Parisian doctors to him and took on the trouble of resuming rehearsals when Wagner was still too weak to take part in them himself.