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Theodor Uhlig (Wurzen, Saxony, 15 February 1822 - Dresden, 3 January 1853) was a German viola-player, composer and music critic. ==Uhlig and Wagner== An illegitimate son of King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony,〔Warrack, ''Uhlig, Theodor''〕 Uhlig became a member of the Dresden orchestra at the age of 19. In the following year (1842), Richard Wagner came to Dresden for the premiere of his opera, ''Rienzi'', and remained in the city as Kapellmeister until his flight following the May Uprising in the city of 1849 (in which he had taken a leading part). Although originally opposed to Wagner, Uhlig quickly became a passionate convert. A tangible sign of his devotion was his arrangement of Wagner's opera ''Lohengrin'' for piano. Uhlig defended Wagner in magazine articles and reviews; Wagner wrote of him in his autobiography ''Mein Leben'' that he grasped with clear understanding and perfect agreement those very tendencies of mine which many musicians of apparently wider culture than his own regarded with almost despairing horror. During the early years of Wagner's exile from Germany Uhlig remained one of his most important contacts and the source of an extensive correspondence until Uhlig's early death in 1853 (from consumption). Although Uhlig's letters to Wagner have not survived, there are nearly 100 letters from Wagner to Uhlig from 1849 to 1853, many of them very lengthy.〔Wagner (1870), 1-304〕 In these the composer is often very frank about his own moods and depression, and frequently abusive of others, including mutual friends (e.g. accusing his former secretary Ritter of onanism)〔Weiner (1997), 341-2〕 Uhlig in part repaid Wagner by a series of articles, published in 1850, caustically attacking the opera ''Le prophète'' by Wagner's supposed enemy, Giacomo Meyerbeer. In a series of six essays in the ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'', entitled 'Contemporary Reflections', Uhlig castigated the music of the opera and attacked Meyerbeer personally, not least as a representative of 'Hebraic art-taste' (Meyerbeer was Jewish).〔See article no 6 of the series in Wikimedia Commons -File:Theodor Uhlig – Zeitgemäße Betrachtungen NZfM 1850.pdf〕 Wagner picked up on this phrase as an excuse to launch his virulent attack ''Jewishness in Music''. Uhlig was involved in the negotiations for the publication of this pamphlet.〔Wagner (1870), p. 69, letter of 20 September 1850〕 Wagner later dedicated to Uhlig his major essay ''Opera and Drama.'' It was also to Uhlig that he first wrote of his intentions to create his ''Ring Cycle'' as a series of four operas.〔letter of 12 November 1851, Wagner (1870) 137-140〕 In this letter Wagner asks Uhlig to 'borrow' for him a book that he needs about the Volsunga saga from the Dresden Royal library. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theodor Uhlig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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