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"Wagner had indeed made liberal use of the poet's privilege
to deal with history in his own way for his own purposes. He
substituted the Tannhauser who was the lover of Venus for
Heinrich von Ofterdingen as the central figure in the
Wartburg Contest of Song, though by way of compensation to
the latter he gave his Tannahuser the Christian name of
Heinrich. He flouted history by making HIS Tannhauser one of
the singers at the court of Landgrave Hermann in 1207 or
thereabouts, when the real Tannhauser would have been only a
tiny boy." WO.59

THE WAGNER OPERAS, ERNEST NEWMAN, PRINCETON 1991, Knopf
1949.