Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel

Undated

Subject

Telegram

Overview

A telegram straightening out the order of the Mannheim concert programme: the Kaisermarsch as introduction, then Lohengrin and Meistersinger, closing with Tristan.

Letter

Programme misintelligible. Please, introduction Kaisermarsch. 3. Lohengrin. 4. Meistersinger. Close, Tristan. Hope clear.

Wagner.

Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 14