It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

Wagner then sent him to Vienna to stage Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (the last two Ring dramas) there. 9 "From the New World" which greatly influenced the direction of American classical music. He also had a significant role in the genesis of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Suite.