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Götterdämmerung
Lost Art-ID
1598
Title
Götterdämmerung
Place of release
Tribschen b. Luzern/Bayreuth
Date of publication
1870/1872
Object type
Group of reported objects
Description
Abschrift Hans Richters von Vorspiel und 1. Aufzug des 2. Gesamtentwurfs (Orchesterskizze) mit autographer Titelseite Wagners, WWV 86D Musik V.
Holding
Musikhandschriften
Provenance
Wagner presented the manuscript to King Ludwig II of Bavaria on 25 August 1870.
Richard Wagner had presented the manuscripts (except for the leaf from the ‘Lohengrin’ compositional sketch) to King Ludwig II of Bavaria on various occasions. Sold to the Reich Chamber of Commerce by the Wittelsbach Equalisation Fund in April 1939, which gave it to Hitler on 20 April 1939 for his 50th birthday; at the end of the war, the manuscripts were presumed to be in the ‘Führerbunker’ in Berlin. Since then whereabouts unknown. A Munich journalist surmised that Richard Wagner's lost manuscripts may have ended up in the former Soviet Union. A second assumption speaks in favour of their destruction.
Storage site
Published since
Contact
Richard Wagner Museum
mit Nationalarchiv und Forschungsstätte der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung Bayreuth
Wahnfriedstr. 2
95444 Bayreuth
Germany
Phone
+49 (0) 921 – 75728-0
Fax
+ 49 (0) 921 - 7572822
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