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8808Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Large photographic portrait of Richard Wagner with his son Siegfried and added in collage Siegfried's daughter Friedelind inscribed to Arturo Toscanini and signed below the image by Friedelind Wagner "Mausi" and on behalf of her deceased father "Siegfried" and with a clipped facsimile of Wagner's partial signature laid down to the left of Siegfried's signature dated 25 March 1944. The mount with two corners cracked and professionally repaired. Still fragile but well stabilized. <br><br><br />A birthday card from the Wagners to Toscanini born March 25 in exile in New York during the war "To our very dear friend Arturo". It was 13 years since he had appeared at the Bayreuth Festival and they had not forgotten him and the phenomenal impact he made in 1930 and 31. In 1940 he spared no expense or effort in sponsoring Friedelind "Mausi" to seek refuge in the United States.<br><br><br />For the Italian Maestro Wagner always held a special status: he inaugurated his first appointment at La Scala in 1898 with Die Meistersinger and made his final public appearance in 1954 with an all-Wagner program. The anti-fascist conductor's affinity for this music was such that he was even asked by Hitler to the lead the Bayreuth Festival founded by Wagner himself. Toscanini promptly refused and never returned to the Festival. unknown books
199449845Budapest:: Konemann Music. Near Fine. 1994. Paperback. 9638303603 . Musical score. A paperback reprint edition. Near fine in oversize printed wraps. . Konemann Music, paperback books
197351292NY:: Library Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0912050438 . Selected edited and introduced by Charles Osborne. Translated from the German. First edition thus. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Library Press, hardcover books
198773036London & Melbourne: J.M. Dent & Songs 1987. First UK edition. ix 1030 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated and edited by Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington. This edition features “original texts and passages from existing printed editions.†London & Melbourne: J.M. Dent & Songs unknown books
199449844Budapest:: Konemann Music. Near Fine. 1994. Paperback. 963830359X . Musical score. A paperback reprint edition. Near fine in oversize printed wraps. . Konemann Music, paperback books
1911288994New York. : Doubleday Page. 1911. 1st US. Hardcover quarter green cloth over green gilt decorated boards gilt spine title. . Spine slightly cocked corners worn spine title faded scattered foxing affecting mainly the versos of the plates still a good plus complete copy no dust jacket. 4to. 26 full-page color plates with tissue guards by Arthur Rackham. Doubleday Page. hardcover books
187795London: Schott 1877. First Edition. 1/2 cloth. Near fine. 1st collected edition in English complete in 356 pages a copy with less pages is missing something. The Rhein-Gold The Walkyrie Siegfried and Dusk of the Gods preceded in English only by the privately printed individual librettos a hastily gathered abridged assembly of 238 pages total published to secure copyright. Our edition issued to accompany Wagner's conducting of the cycle in London has all 4 parts with all the stage directions and dialogue. Contemporary half cloth marbled boards printed paper label near fine complete with the volume half-title the 4 half-titles for the individual parts and the coda To Richard Wagner. Ex-Edw. Schuberth with his company's oval stamp to the general half-title. The source was the prodigious German epic poem Das Nibelungen Lied anonymously written by an unknown massive-aggressive in the 12th century about events in the 5th or 6th. It recounts the deeds of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer the Germanator his betrayal and murder and the revenge of his wife Kriemhilda the real heroine. In 1816 Professor of philology Karl Lachmann began a careful study of the 11 known more or less complete manuscripts then ordered them chronologically collated corrected translated and amalgamated them to finally produce the version in Middle High German. It remains a foundational pillar of European literature but it was Wagner 1813-1883 who transformed it into an opera the only venue where people die of love by first revisiting Lachmann then brooding upon it and finally escalating the dramatic harmonic and most famously the instrumental forces beyond any of his predecessors setting a new and basic though often ignored challenge for his successors. The Ring Cycle exemplifies his theories and it's conjoining with national epic poetry was the appropriate agent for a masterwork. Schott unknown books
14869NY SCRIBNER 1977. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION FINE. 1st Edition. NY, SCRIBNER, 1977 unknown books
196408694New York: Alfred A . Knopf 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Very Good copy with small hole front panel outer hinge minimal rubbing edges faded ink stamp title page scuffs from removed bookplate rfep. <br/><br/> Alfred A . Knopf hardcover books
1968RWAGCIN00DPEWagner Car Company 1968. Fine. Wagner Richard M. Cincinnati Streetcars. No. 2 : The Inclines. Cincinnati: Wagner Car Company 1968. 72pp. Illustrated. 4to. Stapled wraps. Book condition: Near fine with gentle rubbing and spine subtly faded. Wagner Car Company paperback books
18863040Paris: Jules Rouam 1886. First edition. First edition. Thick folio. The Deluxe Copy. Three quarter light brown morocco five rasied bands marbled boards gilt spine. Celebrated treatise on Wagner with superb gravure illustrations by Fantin-Latour 120 including a double suite of lithographs printed on both Japan Vellum as well as China Paper. Scenes from operas much more all tissue-guarded. Some light rubbing to corners and spine very good copy. <br/><br/> Jules Rouam hardcover books
1989SKU1018528Pacific Research Inst for Public 1989-07-01. PAPERBACK. Good. Clean minor wear no marks or notations. LZ Pacific Research Inst for Public paperback books
1311409Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel. Hardcover. Octavo; Piano-vocal score; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine red without print; Boards in red cloth with gold print cocked spine mild wear to corners and spine caps slight tear to front top edge slight shelfwear; Text block has endpapers torn along hinge fold name in ink with date "1902" on title page blue red and lead pencil marks throughout; Text in German; Plate no. "V.A. 301"; 262 pages. 1311409. FP New Rockville Stock. Breitkopf & Hartel hardcover books
135051New York: G. Schirmer n.d. Hardcover. VG Ex-library with usual library markings bookplate on front inside cover pocket and barcode at back inside cover perforation stamp used on illus. pages are generally in good shape with a few tears fixed with old adhesive tape rebinding is tight but flexible enough for the book to stand open on a piano or music stand cover show minor wear. Blue cloth library binding 343 pp. musical score. Appears to be the full score for Wagner's Tannhauser. Includes an overview of the opera's characters and plot. G. Schirmer hardcover books
1972115409New York NY: Vienna House 1972. First. Hardcover. Good Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine inside front and rear covers ffep. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are clean and clear. Binding is tight. Pale orange cloth boards with black title block and gilt lettering on spine; x 665 pp; bw illustrations. Edited with notes by John N. Burk. Includes a list of the illustrations. Vienna House hardcover books
1914143044Berlin Germany: Wilhelm Borngraber Verlag 1914. Hardcover. VG- Some foxing to title band sticker inside front cover. Blue paper over boards; Title stamped in gold; Off-white title band around lower half; 95 pp.; 17 plates. Text in German. The text of Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal" accompanied by pictures from a Georg Hartmann production of the work. Includes an afterword by Dr. Freiherrn von Lichtenberg. A nice book. Wilhelm Borngraber Verlag hardcover books
1914145177London: William Heinemann 1914. New second Impression. Hardcover. F Moderate wear and soiling to binding; hinges are loose; end pages are substantially foxed; most text pages are tanned; color plates are clean and vivid however. Brown cloth gilt letters and decoration on spine and front cover 160 pp. 34 color plates with titled tissue guards BW illus. Richard Wagner's classic tale translated by Margaret Armour and illustrated by English artist Arthur Rackham 1867-1939. Not the prettiest book on the shelf but Rackham's color plates are still vivid and compelling. Rare. William Heinemann hardcover books
253812 pages of a bifolium; second leaf blank. Small folio 208 x 270 mm. Dated Paris May 7 1841. On stationery with Wagner's monogrammatic blindstamp to upper left corner. In German with translation.<br/><br/>A long densely-written letter regarding Wagner's proposed biography of Beethoven and mentioning his opera Rienzi.<br/><br/>Wagner who was trying to eke out a living in Paris at the time attempts to interest Winkler in his two-volume monograph on Beethoven based on the research of Wagner's friend Gottfried Engelbert Anders 1795-1866 a German-born librarian in Paris. Wagner declares his intention to supersede Anton Schindler's biography of Beethoven published in the previous year which he considers inadequate. He asks Winkler to recommend him to the publisher Christoph Arnold 1763-1847 and names his and Anders's requested fees to be paid in part as advances: <br/><br/>"Herr Anders found Schindler's book to be very poor compared to his own collection of communications on Beethoven . also every thoughtful and sensitive reader has expressed his opinion on Schindler's book that it falls short of meeting the demands of a true biography as it had been expected. Herr Anders was prompted to realize his long-cherished dream. As his position. leaves him hardly any time and he also confesses that an easy fluent realization will not come to him he has offered to leave me all his rich material and to discuss everything with me but to have the book itself written by me. Avoiding any fussy pedantic scholarly philistinism of citation our book shall be more like a great novel on an artist than like a dry enumeration of chronologically ordered dates and anecdotes."<br/><br/>In the final paragraph Wagner expresses his frustration about the long silence of the Dresden court opera regarding a possible production of his opera Rienzi:<br/><br/>"I have to confess to you that my opera Rienzi still means more to me than anything else. I am almost dying of my unruly lack of patience concerning the decision of the general direction. A negative decision.will cost me half a year during which I could have entered negotiations with a different theater."<br/><br/>Provenance<br/>From the noted autograph collection of Louis Koch.<br/><br/>Slightly creased; small professional repairs to edges; professionally guarded at inner edge of final leaf. WBV 169. Richard Wagner: Sämtliche Briefe I no. 149 pp. 481-86. Kinsky: Manuskripte Briefe Dokumente von Scarlatti bis Stravinsky: Katalog der Musikautographensammlung Louis Koch pp. 250-51 with facsimile of first page.<br/><br/>Theodor Winkler 1775-1856 better known under his pseudonym Theodor Hell was the editor-in-chief of the daily Dresdner Abend-Zeitung for which Wagner worked as a Paris correspondent. Enclosed with the present letter was Wagner's third "Pariser Bericht" dated May 5 1841. Winkler was active in many fields; trained as a lawyer he achieved fame as a poet editor arts administrator and stage director.<br/><br/>Wagner's biography of Beethoven did not in fact materialize. After Arnold declined the publishers Brockhaus and Cotta did the same. <br/><br/>Rienzi was first performed at the Dresden court opera on October 20 1842. unknown books
190533535Leipzig: C.F.W. Siegel's Musikalienhandlung 1905. Octavo. Original publisher's gray wrappers with titling in sepia within decorative border. Binding slightly worn; spine faded. 71 i colophon pp. C.F.W. Siegel's Musikalienhandlung unknown books
192334921Berlin: Drei Masken Verlag 1923. Folio. Original publisher's quarter dark red morocco with marbled boards raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt. 462 pp. 1f. colophon.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped. Very minor signs of wear. In very good condition overall. Limited to 530 numbered copies this no. 111.<br/><br/>A "music drama" in three acts by Richard Wagner to his own libretto Die Meistersinger was first performed in Munich at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater on June 21 1868.<br/><br/>"The only comedy among Wagner's mature works Die Meistersinger is a rich perceptive music drama widely admired for its warm humanity but regarded with suspicion by some for its dark underside. Its genial aspect is immensely enhanced by the technical mastery displayed by Wagner at the height of his powers." Barry Millington in Grove Music Online. Drei Masken Verlag unknown books
1993011022Budapest: Konemann Music 1993. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Reprint edition. Quarto 4to. ii 274 pages. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear; almost new condition. Facsimile reproduction of a 19th Century score. Konemann Music Paperback books
197835211New York: Dover 1978. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. Pictorial wrappers. 710 pp. Dover paperback books
29839370 x 249 mm wide margins. Titled "Ständchen" in pencil and signed by the artist in pencil at lower right just within platemark with "Probedrucke" proof in pencil at lower left; remarque of six cats to center. Printed on japan paper. A fine strong impression. <br/><br/>Slightly worn and creased at margins. One of a series of 12 etchings by Staeger of scenes from Die Meistersinger in an edition of 175 copies only published in Munich by Othmar Kern in 1921. Muschler: Ferdinand Staeger 160. <br/><br/>Staeger an important German printmaker worked in Vienna Prague and finally in Munich. In addition to his depictions of scenes from Wagner's operas he also made prints of scenes from Mozart's operas. unknown books
198235209New York: Dover 1982. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. Pictorial wrappers. 615 pp. Dover paperback books
198235208New York: Dover 1982. Paperback. Good. Folio. Pictorial wrappers. 395 pp. Slightly worn. Dover paperback books
