 As Wagner prospered , it became second @-@ nature for him , his wife <unk> and the Wagner circle to <unk> Meyerbeer and his works , and <unk> 's <unk> contain numerous instances of this – ( as well as recording a dream of Wagner 's in which he and Meyerbeer were reconciled ) . Wagner 's autobiography ' Mein <unk> ' , circulated amongst his friends ( and published openly in 1911 ) , contains constant sniping at Meyerbeer and concludes with Wagner <unk> over Meyerbeer 's death . The <unk> of Meyerbeer became a commonplace amongst <unk> : in 1898 , George Bernard Shaw , in The Perfect <unk> , commented that " <unk> young people cannot understand how anyone could have taken Meyerbeer 's influence seriously . " 
