 When Wagner presented a revised version of his opera "Tannhäuser" in Paris in 1861, it provoked so much hostility that the run was cancelled after only three performances.Deteriorating relations between France and Germany only made matters worse and after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, there were political and nationalistic reasons to reject Wagner's influence too.Traditionalist critics used the word "Wagnerian" as a term of abuse for anything that was modern in music.