Lohengrin: romantische Oper in drei Akten: Klavierauszug zu vier Ha?nden ohne Worte

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. [1853]. First Edition. First edition of the piano solo score. Lithographed title [v.b.]; [blank]; 4 - 117 pp. Engraved music, [PN] 8696. Original green wrappers lacking spine, contained in contemporary music rental folder. A number of pages loose from the stitching, a handful with creasing, wear or small losses to the lower outer corner.



Wagner's Lohengrin received its first performance, with Liszt conducting, on 28 August 1851 at the Grosherzogliches Hof-Theater, Weimar. A full score was not published until around August of the following year. The opera contains the famous wedding march, beginning here on page 85. "This and the Mendelssohn 'Wedding March' were linked together at the royal wedding in 1858 of Princess Victoria of England and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, thus establishing a tradition still with us." (James Fuld, "The Book of World Famous Music," p. 632) (11179)

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