SKU: BR.BDV-629
Complete Letters in 35
Volumes and
Supplements. Composed
by Richard Wagner. Edited
by Jo Forner and Klaus
Burmeister. Linen.
Complete works/textbook.
Romantic period. Complete
Works. 450 pages.
Deutscher Verlag fur
Musik #BDV 629. Published
by Deutscher Verlag fur
Musik (BR.BDV-629).
ISBN 9783370003611.
5.5 x 8 inches.
German.
With the
publication of Volume 11
in November 1999, Werner
Breigs fundamentally new
scholarly concept of
Richard Wagners complete
letters begins to make
itself felt more
strongly. The
meticulously annotated
volumes are illustrated
with facsimiles and
little known photos.
Further enhancing the
value of this edition are
a number of letters,
which were hitherto
practically unavailable
and are published here
for the first time. The
commentaries are based on
many previously
unpublished
documents.
Concerning Volume 10
(published one year later
than Volume 11) we have
obtained the following
fax by the English Wagner
expert Stewart Spencer,
who wittily praises
Werner Breig's
fundamental new
concept:
There is a
general problem of
reviewing such
magnificent volumes. They
are the yardstick by
which all other writings
on Wagner will be judged.
It is like sending
someone to inspect the
standard metre rule in
Paris and asking them to
review it. All one can
say is that it exists and
that it is in a class of
its own. I'd like to
congratulate you on its
publication and thank you
most warmly for picking
up this edition. (Stewart
Spencer, October 11,
2000)
Im Sommer
1861 kommt es zur
endgultigen Trennung des
Ehepaars Wagner. Nach
Auflosung des gemeinsamen
Pariser Haushalts lasst
sich Minna Wagner in
Dresden nieder wo sie
ihre letzten Lebensjahre
verbringt. All dies ist
in den Briefen
detailliert nachzulesen
daneben aber auch die
kunstlerischen Erfolge
des Jahres: In Frankfurt
dirigiert Wagner zum
ersten Mal seinen
,,Lohengrin (zwolf Jahre
nach der Urauffuhrung!)
in Leipzig stellt er die
,,Meistersinger-Ouverture
vor und in Wien
veranstaltet er Konzerte
mit Szenen aus seinen
Opern. Biographisch
einschneidend sind die
vollstandige Amnestierung
- nun darf Wagner auch
wieder den Boden seiner
sachsischen Heimat
betreten - sowie die
weitere Entfremdung und
schliesslich die
endgultige Trennung von
seiner Ehefrau Minna.