Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel

Undated · Bayreuth

Subject

Telegram

Overview

A telegram, signed 'Parsifal', approving Hans Richter for the Mannheim conductorship but asking that Franz Fischer still be given a good offer, with Wagner's personal guarantee.

Letter

Richter? Good! However, get Fischer good offer. I guarantee him.

Parsifal.

Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 80