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The libretto was complete before his visit to London in 1877.
Lohengrin: romantische Oper; 3 acts (libretto, 1845; music, 1846-1848).
In 1863 he published the libretto of Der Ring des Nibelungen.
His Leonore (1798) formed the basis of the libretto of the Fidelio of Beethoven.
Wagner's choice of subjects had from the outset shown an imagination far above that of any earlier librettist; yet he had begun with stories which could attract ordinary minds, as he dismally realized when the libretto of Der fliegende Hollander so pleased the Parisian wire-pullers that it was promptly set to music by one of their friends.