3334: 1 vol. Wagner Richard. (Wesendonk Lieder.) 5 Start Price USD 6,000.00 Current Price USD 7,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 3 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 Location Philadelphia, PA See more about '3334: 1 vol. Wagner Richard. (Wesendonk Lieder.) 5' Description Current Lot 1 vol. Wagner Richard. (Wesendonk Lieder.) 5 1 vol. Wagner, Richard. (Wesendonk Lieder.) 5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme mit Pianoforte Begleitung... Mainz: B. Schott's Sohnen, no date [1862]. Pre-publication issue. Plate no. 17049. Folio, contemp. stiff blue wrappers, orig. printed front wrapper trimmed & mounted on front wrapper. Minor internal creasing, minor dust soiling to title page. In custom brown cloth clamshell box. Presentation copy, inscribed to Hans von Bulow & signed by R(ichard) Wagner at head of title and with pencil markings in the score presumably in von Bulow's hand. This pre-publication issue was printed for Wagner's own use before the publication of the score; it is without a price & has a more elaborate title page design than the trade issue. Von Bulow was the pianist at the first performance of these songs, the pencil markings in songs 1 & 5, most likely in his hand, mainly concern respiration & phrasing. Hans von Bulow, a member of Wagner's inner circle, was the pianist at the first performance of these songs with the singer Emilie Genast, on July 30, 1862, in the villa of Wagner's publisher Ludwig Strecker. A few years later von Bulow was the conductor of the premiere of Tristan and Isolde (June 10, 1865), by which time Wagner was having an affair with his wife, Cosima (nee Liszt). Mathilde Wesendonk, the author & dedicatee of these songs, was for ten years Wagner's mistress, much of Tristan and Isolde was composed at the home she shared with her husband, Otto Wesendonk, near Lake Zurich. New Grove, 20: 138; see WWV 91, p. 453 Place a Bid!