Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
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ID 1349656
Lot 78 | Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Estimate value
2000GBP £ 2 000 – 3 000
Autograph letter signed ('Richard Wagner') to his brother-in-law [Oswald Marbach], Lucerne, 28 December 1868
In German. Three pages, 206 x 134mm, bifolium, docketed by recipient on blank verso. Provenance: J.A. Stargardt, Berlin, catalogue 314, 1930; Hans Schneider, Tutzing, catalogue 223 (1978).
On 'the noticeable and sustained persecution of me by the press'. Wagner thanks Marbach for sending him a copy of his tragedy Medeia and a copy by the artist Krausse of a portrait of Friedrich Schiller by Tischbein, and mentions his niece, Marbach's daughter Rosalie, who has begun a career in the theatre ('How much I would like ... to meet her!'). For his own part, he is working on theoretical matters, 'though I am doing this mainly for a practical purpose, which is to shed some light on the peculiar reasons for the noticeable and sustained persecution of me by the press etc': it will be published as a memorial to the recently deceased editor and critic Franz Brendel.
Wagner's 'theoretical' work appeared early in 1869 as 'Aufklärungen über das Judentum in der Musik', a foreword to his notorious anti-semitic essay Judaism in Music, published by Franz Brendel in 1850. Oswald Marbach (1810-1890) had married Wagner's elder sister, the actress Rosalie Wagner, in 1836: she died in childbirth the following year.
Artist: | Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) |
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Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts, Books and manuscripts |
Artist: | Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) |
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Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts, Books and manuscripts |
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