WAGNER WINIFRED Group of 3 brief Typed Letters Signed to Fre

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WAGNER, WINIFRED. Group of 3 brief Typed Letters Signed, to Frederick C. Mayer, each relating to Mayer's proposal to improve Wagner's Tannhäuser finale and have the revision performed in Bayreuth. Each 1/2 page, 4to or oblong 8vo, personal stationery; folds. Each with the original envelope. Bayreuth, 15 August 1963; 28 January; 29 April 1970

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15 August 1963: "May I acknowledge the receipt of your Tannhäuser Schluss wondering what my son will do ???? . . ."
29 April 1970: ". . . We are not thinking of selling any items of the Wagner archives--but are . . . turning everything into a foundation. . . . Of course the newspapers have again written all sorts of lies--foremost the American!"
with--Group of 3 Typed Letters Signed to Mayer, relating to his Tannhäuser finale: Arthur Fiedler. 1/2 page, 4to, "Boston Pops" stationery. Boston, 9 September 1969 Wieland Wagner. 1/2 page, 4to. Bayreuth, 20 [December] 1965 Joseph Rosenstock. New York, 23 October 1965.
Wieland Wagner has acknowledged that the finale of Tannhäuser is flawed and found Mayer's proposals excellent, but the revision was not accepted for performance at Bayreuth (Mayer, "The Finalization of Tannhäuser," Music Educators Journal, October 1969).