Wagner, Richard - Signed Letter About Bayreuth Festival 1873 Autographs Conductors Musica Viva München 1962

Musica Viva München 1962

one of the greatest opera singers of the 19th century

developed as a concert pianist in Europe where he toured extensively

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Wagner, Richard - Signed Letter About Bayreuth Festival 1873 Autographs Conductors Musica Viva München 1962Famous German opera composer (1813 1883), signed letter ("To the Patrons of the Performance Festival in Bayreuth"), with printed text, asking to patrons for donations to support and save the promised first Bayreuth Festival, which was (finally) going to take place in the summer of 1876. This is a fantastic, historically important document, with the authentic signature of Wagner at the end. Wagner describes the many difficulties of the project, that