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Siegfried

Lost Art-ID

1597

Title

Siegfried

Place of release

Tribschen b. Luzern

Date of publication

1869

Object type

Autograph

Group of reported objects

Autograph

Description

Autographes Particell des 3. Aufzugs(Zweitschrift des 2. Gesamtentwurfs (Orchesterskizze)) für Ludwig II. von Bayern, WWV 86C Musik IV.

Auf der 2. Titelseite ein Widmungsgedicht, datiert 25. August 1869.

Holding

Musikhandschriften

Provenance

Wagner composed the manuscript and presented it to King Ludwig II of Bavaria for his 25th birthday on 25 August 1869.

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

unbekannt

Published since

2001