Eduard Stein

He attended the grammar school in Freiberg, where his musical inclination was also encouraged by August Ferdinand Anacker, the founder of the Singakademie and conductor of the Bergmusikchor, which had previously been discovered by the local pastor.

He then began to study theology at the Leipzig University, but under the influence of Heinrich Marschner and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy he abandoned this in favour of musical training.

I have just read a report on your performance of my Lohengrin, and I see from it that I was so happy to meet in you one of those rare friends whose beautiful and uplifting participation is the only thing that does not make me regret having presented my works to the public, where they so often and usually experience the fate of maltreatment and ridicule.

To Stein's rejoinder, Wagner replied on 3 July: Please take this opportunity to thank me in brief for your exceptionally friendly letter, and, if you please, also inform Herr Laue of my joy at having won such an affectionate heart in him, as well as in you!

With Liszt, the pianist, conductor and feared critic Hans von Bülow and the journalist and editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in Leipzig, Franz Brendel, also came to the residential city.

To commemorate the year on 16 March 1865, a marble stone with the inscription "EDUARD STEIN | † | XVI MAERZ MDCCCLXIV" was ceremoniously unveiled on the grave (in what was then the Rosengarten cemetery).