SKU: BR.BV-420
Complete Letters in 35 Volumes and Supplements. Composed by Richard Wagner. Edited by Margret Jestremski. Linen. Buchverlag Breitkopf & Hartel (Music Books). Romantic period. Complete Works. 760 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #BV 420. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.BV-420). ISBN 9783765104206. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. German.
On 21 June 1868, Wagner celebrates a sensational success in Munich with the premiere of his opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg . The nerve-racking performance preparations are the main topic in the correspondence of that year. For months Wagner has been negotiating the options for performing Lohengrin and Rienzi in Paris, where no other Wagner operas have been given since the Tannhauser scandal of 1861. Many letters provide information about quite private matters. Wagner is designing the interior of his house; Cosima von Bulow is deciding to separate from her husband and moves to Wagner in Lucerne. Volume 20 of the series of letters contains about 350 letters, including several first publications.
