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Fellow Citizens! An adventurer, the spy Richard Wagner, is robbing our country. Let us request Ludwig

II. To refuse wagner residence in the countra. Everyone to sign the appeal to the King. The Committee.

The public incitements and an ultimatum by his ministers,

force Ludwig II. To move Wagner out of Munich.

Petition 40.000 citizens of Munich request Your Majesty

to ban Richard Wagner from the country. The Committee.

My beloved Friend, However much it grieves me, I have to request you to leave Munich for

a while. Believe me, I'm forced to act thus. My friendship for you will last forever.

Please remember me with friendship because, I dare say hornestly, I'm worthy of it. Who

can part us? I know you sympathise with me, as you can understand my deep suffering.

I couldn't do otherwise, please be convinced of that, and

don't doubt your best friend. Yours until death, Ludwig.

In the villa Triebschen at the lake of Lucerne, the Master finally finds

peace, in his loneliness, he seeks solace by composting "Die Meistersinger".

He was visited there by his Royal friend.

Now tired of life, Wagner toils at his "Nibelungen", until a new companion relieves

his lonely existence, Cosima, the ex-wife of the conductor Hans von Blow.

With the help of the Municipality of Bayreuth, represented by Mayor Muncker and the

banker Feustel, Wagner constructs his Festival Theatre, in the period 1873-1875.

Part Five:
Bayreuth.

The Opera House in Bayreuth.

Villa Wahnfried.

In 1876, the performances of the Nibelungen Festival take place, to extraordinary

acclaim. These performances are attended by Ludwig II. And Wilhelm I., King of Prussian.

But only the unforgettable performances of "Parsifal" in

1882 finally crown the life work of the Immortal Master.

Only in Bayreuth Parsifal may be performed in all future solely. Pasifal

should never be presented on any theatre to the audience to the amusement.

On 13. February 1883, Richard

Wagner died in Venice.

The end.

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