Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel

Undated · Bayreuth

Subject

Telegram

Overview

A telegram: if Reichenberg is a true deep bass for Fafner he should come tomorrow; otherwise the journey is pointless, as Wagner leaves for Vienna on Sunday.

Letter

Emil Heckel, Mannheim.

If Reichenberg deep bass, Fafner, let him come to-morrow. If not, journey aimless, Viennese departure Sunday.

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. 59