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WAGNER,
Richard, 1813-1883
Richard Wagners Siegfried-Idyll. Eine einmalige
Faksimile-Ausgabe der Edition René Coeckelberghs zum
Richard-Wagner-Jahr.
[Ms. Korporationsgemeinde, Luzern]
 detail of the
MS
Luzern, 1983. 27 x 35 cm, 2 vols, 31, 80 pp.
Stunning 6-color halftone of the 14-page “composing” score in its
original loose
bifolio format issued on the occasion of the centennial of the
composer’s death. This exquisitely subtle work for just thirteen
players (2 vln, vla, vc, bass, fl, 2 cl, bsn, 2 hn, tpt) was composed
for and
presented to Cosima along with an original poem of two strophes on her
33rd birthday on 25 Dec. 1870. Siefried
Idyll was an intensely private matter (Wagner had originally intended
calling it Triebschener Idyll after the name of their villa) and was
never
intended to see publication nor to be heard in public performance; it
was thus a great blow when financial difficulties in 1877 forced
Richard and Cosima
to sell the work to Schott, who published it the following year. Preface
by Wolfgang Wagner, notes on the
corrections and changes in the MS by Ernst-Hans Beer. Essays by Carl
Dahlhaus, Peter Wapnewski & Michael Riedler. Includes
full-page
portraits, photographs of the Wagner house, studio, map of Lucerne,
& musical examples.
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The Edition: René Coeckelberghs, Luzern. 999 copies printed on
fine watermarked art paper. Bound in full leather with raised bands;
composer's handwriting embossed in gold on the covers of both volumes;
slipcase covered in linen with fine bronze medallion—6.5 cm in
diameter—of the
composer . $695
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