Rienzi friend Apel, who had likely first made the suggestion that Wagner compose "Rienzi", mentions a plan to perform the overture to "Rienzi" "a fortnight hence", but contains a clear indication that her husband had just been committed to a debtors' prison. The full score of "Rienzi" was completed on 19 November 1840. In 1841 Wagner moved to Meudon, just outside Paris, where the debt laws could be more easily evaded, whilst awaiting developments for "Rienzi", having already written to King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, requesting that he order a production of the work in Dresden. With the support of
Music of Scotland in the nineteenth century Hae" by Burns. Major composers included of the national school that developed in the late nineteenth century included Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935), William Wallace (1860–1940), Learmont Drysdale (1866–1909) and Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916). Mackenzie, who studied in Germany and Italy and mixed Scottish themes with German Romanticism, is best known for his three "Scottish Rhapsodies" (1879–80, 1911), "Pibroch" for violin and orchestra (1889) and the "Scottish Concerto" for piano (1897), all involving Scottish themes and folk melodies. Wallace's work included an overture, "In Praise of Scottish Poesie" (1894). Drysdale's work often dealt with Scottish themes, including the overture "Tam O’ Shanter" (1890),