Autograph manuscript signed (at end, ‘Richard Wagner‘), the first poetical draft of the libretto for Tannhäuser, here titled ‘Das Venusberg / Romantische Oper in 3 Acten’, Dresden, 29 January – 22 March 1843

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Autograph manuscript signed (at end, ‘Richard Wagner‘), the first poetical draft of the libretto for Tannhäuser, here titled ‘Das Venusberg / Romantische Oper in 3 Acten’, Dresden, 29 January – 22 March 1843

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph manuscript signed (at end, ‘Richard Wagner‘), the first poetical draft of the libretto for Tannhäuser, here titled ‘Das Venusberg / Romantische Oper in 3 Acten’, Dresden, 29 January – 22 March 1843
Presentation leaf (a singleton), original wrapper and 17 pages, 352 x 213mm, on ten bifolia, a working manuscript with many emendations, cancellations and additions, dated at beginning and end, signed at end. The verso of the lower wrapper bears a number of annotations including an additional section of sixteen lines (four deleted), with title ‘Gesang der älteren Pilger’, a few musical notations, and apparent pen-trials. Stitched in 20^th-century boards.

The poetical draft for Tannhäuser: the most important Wagner manuscript to have been on the market for 20 years. The genesis of Tannhäuser dates to the years 1842 to 1845: the first prose drafts of the libretto were completed in July 1842; the present poetical draft dates from January to March 1843; composition of the music began in the summer months of the same year, and the opera received its premiere in Dresden on 19 October 1845. The first printed edition of 1845 was prepared from an autograph fair copy of the libretto (now in Bayreuth): the present draft shows numerous differences in the text, the stage directions, the numbering and division of the scenes and other details. Of particular interest is the presence of an alternate, presumably earlier draft of the song of the old pilgrims on a bifolium re-used as the wrapper.

The autograph presentation reads: 'Seinem Freunde Wilhelm Baumgartner / zum Neujahr 1852. / Zum Widmung: / Mensch, studire Partitur, sonst gelangst Du nicht in das Himmelreich! Damit Dir Deine Wanderung leicht werde, möge Dich das Werk eines Freundes geleiten, der manch steilen Weg von Dir erklommen, und jetzt in herzlicher Liebe seine Hand Dir reicht. / Richard Wagner'. Wilhelm Baumgartner (1820-1867) was a pianist, composer and choral conductor based in Zurich, where he became one of Wagner's closest friends during his exile there. In a letter to Gottfried Keller on 22 March 1851, he described Wagner's 'rousing effect on me with all the fire of his spirit and his energy ... He is a genius through and through and a revolutionary through and through in his approach to art'.

Wilhelm Baumgartner (Swiss conductor, 1820-1867: autograph presentation by Wagner, New Year, 1852); described as 'lost' in the Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (iii, p.266); Sotheby's, 6 December 1996.

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Autograph manuscript signed (at end, ‘Richard Wagner‘), the first poetical draft of the libretto for Tannhäuser, here titled ‘Das Venusberg / Romantische Oper in 3 Acten’, Dresden, 29 January – 22 March 1843

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