No more letters from Wagner
NewsBayreuth is in a letter flap.
An academic project to collate and publish all of the Maester’s 10,000 letters has run out of money and there may be no further delivery.
Funding at the Institute for Music Research of the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg has run out, and Bayreuth is appealing for donations for it to continue.
Anyone got a spare stamp?
Not sure whether anyone would want to read 10000 letters, whoever wrote them. I’d settle for a one-page summary!
Maybe we need AI or a ChatGPT to help us out somehow???
I recommend George Bernard Shaw, for starters.
I can live without all of the Master’s letters. I would however be willing to contribute to the costs of publishing the correspondence between his daughter-in-law and “USA”.
…«USA » meaning «Unser Seliger Adolf», for those who would wonder…
I trust that NL will publish the (presumably inevitable) gofundme link.
To quote the great Oscar Levant: “Sorry kid, I bought a postage stamp this morning and it broke me.”
Could this be Big Karma punishing Bayreuth for its past 30+ years of pathetic Ur-Eurotrash productions?????
Is the ‘Letter Für Eliszt’ included in the collection ?
This is not a Bayreuth vanity project. This is a serious academic research project, collecting and editing a historical-critical compilation of Wagner’s letters. It has been funded for many years by the “German Research Foundation”, the major source of funding for academic projects. And it is not immediately clear why they would stop the project half way through. Makes no sense, and I mean this as a professional academic, not as someone interested in music.