Wagner, Richard - Signed Letter About Bayreuth Festival 1873 Autographs Singers E-H Raymond Amade and Simone Courder

Raymond Amade and Simone Courder

Pablo de Sarasate

dated 1926

German tenor (1885-1958)

Stamped on verso by photographer Suzie Maeder

Wagner, Richard - Signed Letter About Bayreuth Festival 1873 Autographs Singers E-H Raymond Amade and Simone CourderFamous German opera composer (1813 1883), signed letter ("To the Patrons of the Performance Festival in Bayreuth"), with printed text, asking to patrons for donations to support and save the promised first Bayreuth Festival, which was (finally) going to take place in the summer of 1876. This is a fantastic, historically important document, with the authentic signature of Wagner at the end. Wagner describes the many difficulties of the project, that