Theodor Uhlig

Life

Theodor Uhlig was a non-marital son of Friedrich August II of Saxony. From 1841 he was a violinist in the Dresden court orchestra. Here he met Richard Wagner, and became one of his closest friends and a reliable helper, especially in Zurich exile Wagner. After the May uprising in Dresden Uhlig lived for a time in Paris. He composed chamber music, wrote the piano score to Lohengrin, was a music critic and published mainly in the " Neue Zeitschrift für Musik " ​​. He railed against, among others Meyerbeer and the " Jewish music " and advocated for the ideas of Wagner. This Uhlig devoted his writing opera and drama. Uhlig Wagner visited several times in Zurich, contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of 31 years on January 3, 1853. His intense correspondence with Wagner is of historical importance.

Articles on Jewish music

This article was published on 23 July 1850 in the "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik " ​​by Uhlig and is regarded as a "template " of the following article Wagner, to be published on September 3, 1850 in the same journal under the heading "Judaism in Music" been. Uhlig writes:

The correspondence with Richard Wagner

Uhlig and Wagner wrote more than 100 letters. Of particular importance are the letters of Wagner in the years 1849-1852, in which he tells his "revolutionary attitude " and his intentions to Der Ring des Nibelungen, which he began to conceive in 1851 in detail. On November 12, 1851 Wagner explained for the first time in a letter to Uhlig, that he intends ( around the first Siegfried - conception ), a large dramas seal to want to write a tetralogy and made ​​clear his intentions:

Swell

• Digital Library, Berlin: Richard Wagner; Works, writings and letters. Edited by Sven Friedrich.
• Richard Wagner Letters: Selected and annotated by Hanjo Kesting. Munich 1983. ISBN 3-492-02829-1 (formally wrong ISBN )

• Person by Richard Wagner
• Artist (Dresden)
• German
• Born in 1822
• Died in 1853
• Man