I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know... I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich had a very interesting life. He was a composer, conductor, and music director of the opera of the same name. He is also known as the father of romantic music. In addition to all of this he was a German nationalist who believed that the German people were superior to all others. In 1835, he was invited to conduct at a performance of his opera "Rienzi" at the Vienna Opera House.

As a result of this performance, he was invited to become music director of the theater in Berlin around 1836. He accepted this job and moved to Berlin with his wife and son. After some time there, he was met with some opposition from the Prussian government, which refused to allow him to perform in their city.

They also refused to let him create any operas in their country! To put things in perspective, when he first came to Berlin, he was well-loved and highly respected by both Germans and Austrians alike for his talent and talent alone! Yet, it took only two years in Berlin for him to be labeled an enemy by both sides in Prussia's conflict against Austria for German nationalism! So what happened? Well actually, it wasn't really anything specific that happened, but rather what happened when he went out into society. When you're famous in your own country you don't go missing. You can see friends or go about your daily life without having people ask you where you are or who you are with.

But when you don't live in your own country (which is probably inevitable if you're not German), then there is no way for people who know you to avoid talking about you or asking about you or knowing what's going on in your life. This is especially true if you do something that makes people dislike or fear you (like Hitler did). The result is that your privacy (your ability to hide yourself away) is solely dependent on how much privacy other people give you (and even then...).

And so after two years in Berlin he had nothing left but his name...the name of being hated by many people for being one person whom they were afraid would eventually come back! Georg Wilhelm Friedrich eventually left Berlin because of these attacks on him by Prussia's government so he moved back to Vienna where he continued his career as an opera composer and conductor. There he composed several operas that are still performed today including "Tannhauser," "Lohengrin," "Rien

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