vogler thought weber was very talented, and helped him to get a job in breslau. weber had lots of good ideas about how to improve the music there: by changing the way that the orchestra sat, having more rehearsal time, not playing bad pieces of music, and pensioning off old singers. a lot of people there did not like these ideas and made life difficult for him. one night he absent-mindedly drank from a wine bottle. the bottle had engraving-acid inside, and it made him ill for two months. he was never able to sing again. when he tried to go back to work all the good changes he had made had been undone, so he resigned. he had a job in karlsruhe for a short time, then went briefly back to breslau, but because he owed people money there he disappeared and got a job in stuttgart.