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Updated: May 23, 2025
There is much in this strange story which suggests the legend of the Flying Dutchman, and, bearing in mind the admiration which in his early days Wagner felt for the works of Marschner, it is interesting to trace in 'Hans Heiling' the source of much that is familiar to us in the score of 'Der Fliegende Holländer. Of Marschner's other operas, the most familiar are 'Templer und Jüdin, founded upon Sir Walter Scott's 'Ivanhoe, a fine work, suffering from a confused and disconnected libretto; and 'Der Vampyr, a tale of unmitigated gloom and horror.
When Wagner wrote 'Die Feen' he was under the spell of Weber, whose influence is perceptible in every page of the score. Marschner, too, whose 'Vampyr' and 'Templer und Jüdin' had been recently produced at Leipzig, which was then Wagner's headquarters, also appealed very strongly to the young musician's plastic temperament.
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