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BR.BV-415
Complete
Letters in 35 Volumes and
Supplements. Composed
by Richard Wagner. Edited
by Andreas Mielke. Linen.
Buchverlag Breitkopf &
Hartel (Music Books).
Wagner at the confines
of Asia
Romantic
period. Complete Works.
760 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #BV 415.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.BV-415).
ISBN 9783765104152.
5.5 x 8.5 inches.
German.
The year
1863 was very turbulent
for Richard Wagner.
Concert tours took him
halfway across Europe and
all the way to Moscow:
... one now heard my
Valkyries at the confines
of Asia. Yet at the end
of the year, the overall
balance was
disappointing. Tristan
und Isolde was not given
its world premiere in
Vienna, and work on Die
Meistersinger had hardly
advanced. Moreover,
Wagner was in dire
financial straits since
the income from his
artistically successful
concerts only covered a
fraction of the costs of
his lavish lifestyle (he
had moved into a
luxurious residence in
Penzing near Vienna in
May). The meticulously
annotated volume is
illustrated with
facsimiles and little
known photos. Further
enhancing the value of
Volume 15 are a number of
letters written by Wagner
to his patroness Editha
von Rahden in St.
Petersburg and Moscow,
which were hitherto
practically unavailable
and are published here
for the first
time.
Wagner at
the confines of Asia.
Andreas Lux
