The King Louis II de Baviera was a fanatical supporter of wagner and helped rescue his career in the 1860s, the young king, who admired the works of Wagner since he was a little kid, invited the composer to Munich, paid a lot of his large debts, proposed the representation of Tristan and Isolde, the master singers of Nuremberg and the tetralogy of The Ring of the Nibelungo, he also supported the development of new operas.
