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Le Ring à Bayreuth : la tétralogie du centenaire
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ISBN: 2213007977 Year: 1980 Publisher: Paris : Fayard,


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Bayreuth für Anfänger
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ISBN: 3257015348 9783257015348 Year: 1976 Publisher: Zürich: Diogenes,


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Histoire d'un Ring : Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'anneau du Nibelung) de Richard Wagner : Bayreuth 1976-1980
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ISBN: 2221500741 9782221500743 Year: 1980 Publisher: Paris: Laffont,


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Werkstatt Bayreuth
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ISBN: 381352292X Year: 1986 Publisher: München Knaus


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Die Geschichte unserer Familie in Bildern Bayreuth 1876-1976
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ISBN: 3807700552 9783807700557 Year: 1976 Publisher: München : Rogner & Bernhard,


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Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel : With a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals
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ISBN: 1139940686 1108078591 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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A great admirer of Richard Wagner, the music publisher Emil Heckel (1831-1908) founded the first Wagner Society in Mannheim in 1871. His purpose was to inspire others to help raise the necessary funds for the inaugural Bayreuth Festival. William Ashton Ellis (1852-1919) abandoned his medical career in order to devote himself to his Wagner studies. Best known for his translations of Wagner's prose works, he published in 1899 this English translation of Heckel's memoirs (originally edited by his son Karl), interwoven with letters from Wagner to Heckel, who is described by the composer as his 'energetic friend'. Notwithstanding the stylistic idiosyncrasies of the translation, the work provides a valuable first-hand account of the progress made towards establishing what would become one of the world's most prestigious music festivals. The letters span the years 1871 to 1883.

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