Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck

June 28, 1871 · Tribschen

Overview

The last surviving letter of the series: from Tribschen, Wagner formally asks his "honoured Lady-friend" to search the old manuscripts she has kept for his chant for male voices "At Weber's last Resting-place" and send him a copy, with greetings from himself and his wife Cosima.

Letter

Honoured Lady-friend,

Would you perhaps mind searching among the manuscripts of olden time, kindly preserved by you, for a sheet of music

At Weber's last Resting-place,

chant for 4 male voices, and let me have a copy of it in case you find it? You would be heartily obliging Your

Richard Wagner,

who with his wife sends you very best greetings.

Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 153

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