Category: Letters

Telegram Sent: Bayreuth, September 2, 1876, 5:50 p.m.Received: Berg Palace, September 2, 1876, 6:00 p.m. To HisMajesty King Ludwig II of Bavaria Berg Palace. My most heartfelt thanks for the beautiful, meaningful gift [1], Wahnfried’s newest noble adornment! With most faithful devotion, Richard Wagner [1] Four days later (September 6, 1876),…

Honoured Sir, I truly regret that I have not yet been able to secure the free time requisite to express myself concerning your alto violin so fully as I deem necessary, in order that I on my part might contribute to obtaining for this instrument the attention which is its due….

Most honoured Herr Doctor,     The time has now arrived when I must come to an understanding with you regarding the interpretation of the various contracts or bonds which I concluded and signed with the firm of B. Schott’s Sons for the purpose of obtaining various advances, amounting together (if I mistake…

Brief and to the point! Here the “questions to be settled”, which Doepler handed to me in Berlin: be so good as simply to note, beside each number, what you will undertake, and what, on the other hand, Doepler is to undertake. Your dear Herr Bruder was of the greatest importance to…

Dearest Friend! I beg you most earnestly to press upon our friend Gießel that he instruct his editor to refrain henceforth from mentioning my name and my affairs in any manner whatsoever. I have had more than enough of the artificial confusion spread about me by the great newspapers, and I…

Dearest, best Friend! In answer to the question “How are all of you?” there is much that could be said! The world, and particularly Germania, is becoming more and more odious to me! Our cares are great, and, on the whole, the project of allowing our performances to take place…