WHEN THE REVOLUTION CAME TO DRESDENin 1849, Richard Wagner greeted it
with unhinged ecstasy. “Whatever stands, must fall,” the
thirty-five-year-old court conductor wrote that April in the radical
periodical/Volksblätter/. “I will break the power of the mighty, of law,
of property . . ./I will destroy all rulership of one over other/.” As
Dresden’s radicals rose up in May, Wagner swung into action, acting as a
lookout and helping secure weapons. Accompanying him in these duties was
the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, later cited by George Bernard
Shaw as the model for Siegfried, anarchic/Übermensch/of the/Ring/cycle.
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