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Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel - With a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals (Book)
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Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel - With a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals (Book)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original
book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... As late as February
10--three days before her husband's death--Frau Wagner wrote me
without any apprehension of a crisis. I had expressed a hope that
the master would return through the Gothard, so as to visit me at
Mannheim. It fell out otherwise. His homeward road was taken, as a
corpse, over the Brenner again to his beloved German Bayreuth. If I
abstained from depicting the profound impressions made upon me by
the Festspiels, with still more justice may I withhold my feelings
at the news of the great master's death, my sensations at his
solemn burial in Bayreuth. Here, as so often in life, applies that
deeply earnest word from the first act of Parsifal: -- "That ne'er
is told."-- * * * Frau Wagner's condition remained so precarious
for a long time after the master's death, that it was impossible
for her to take any personal part in the festival of 1883. The
sense of mourning was universal. How quiet every movement On the
stage, what an earnest hush among the audience when it took its
customary promenade before the playhouse in the entr'actes. The
thought of the departed master was manifest on every face. Scaria
undertook the stage-management. Every effort was directed to
preserving the master's intentions down to the smallest detail.
Remarks and observations of witnesses of the 1882 and 1883
performances, alike executants and spectators, were collected in a
volume to be kept at Wahnfried. Forty pages here record those notes
on the master's own rendering, and subsequent deviations, all
tabulated under act and person. This chronicle has proved of the
greatest service for retention of the original character of the
performances. The Verwaltungsrath, reinforced by Friedrich Schon as
administrator of the "Richard Wagner Stipendiary - fund, ..".
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