SKU: BR.BV-413
Complete Letters in 35
Volumes and
Supplements. Composed
by Richard Wagner. Edited
by Isabel Kraft and
Martin Durrer. Linen.
Buchverlag Breitkopf &
Hartel (Music Books).
A most disappointing
year
Romantic period.
Complete Works. 720
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #BV 413.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.BV-413).
ISBN 9783765104138.
5.5 x 8.5 inches.
German.
1861 was a
most disappointing year
for Wagner: the Paris
Tannhauser premiere was a
fiasco it went down in
history as one of the
biggest opera scandals of
all time and, after a
grueling wait, the world
premiere of Tristan und
Isolde planned for Vienna
did not come about.
Public opinion gave rise
to the prejudice that
Wagners recent works were
unperformable. It was
only towards the end of
the year that the
composer began to see a
possible way out of this
artistically and
materially hopeless
situation. He decided to
write the Meistersinger
and immediately began
working on the libretto.
In the summer of 1861
Wagner and his wife Minna
definitively broke up;
after liquidating their
joint Paris household,
Minna Wagner settled in
Dresden, where she spent
the last years of her
life.
A most
disappointing year.
