Christies: The Richard Wagner Collection formed by The Honourable Mrs. Mary Burrell. The Property of The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia., RWCollection1978yr,

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 27, 1978 - October 27, 1978
Page Size: 139 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
BURRELL, The Hon. Mrs. MARY Richard Wagner, his life & works from 1813 to 1834, compiled from original letters, manuscripts & other documents & illustrated with portraits & facsimiles. [London, engraved and printed by Allan Wyon]

1898

USD 500.00 - 750.00 1,870.00
BURRELL, The Hon. Mrs. MARY Richard Wagner, his life & works from 1813 to 1834, another copy.

1898

USD 500.00 - 750.00 1,320.00
BURRELL, The Hon. Mrs. MARY Autograph draft of continuation of her biography of Richard Wagner, entitled on cover 'Preface to the Love Letters'

[before 1894]

USD 500.00 - 600.00 605.00
PLANER, NATALIE, Minna's daughter and Richard Wagner's step-daughter A Collection of 21 Autograph letters signed and memoirs of reminiscences, in German, addressed to MRS. BURRELL, [one to Mrs. Burrell's daughter] Leisnig

1890--1899

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 770.00
SCHMOLE, MARIA [nee Heine] Aufzeichnungen: Richard Wagner in Dresden / Von Rienzi zum Fliegenden Hollander / Als konigl. Kapellmeister / Wagner als Politiker (Revolutionar).

1895--1896

USD 200.00 - 300.00 550.00
GEYER, LUDWIG, Wagner's stepfather Autograph letter signed, to Johanna Rosina Wagner, Wagner's mother Dresden

14 Jan. 1814

USD 500.00 - 600.00 770.00
KRAUSE, CARL Der Aufruhr in Dresden am 3 [bis] 9 Mai 1849, nach amtlichen Quellen . . . Zweite Auflage Dresden

1849

USD 100.00 - 120.00 1,210.00
PECHT, FRIEDRICH Aus Richard Wagners Pariser Zeit, Autograph manuscript, 1883.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 440.00
Programs of Musical Performances at Leipzig, im Saale des Gewandhauses, six for 1832--34 and 2 others.

USD 250.00 - 350.00 825.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to HEINRICH DORN, musical director at Riga. Konigsberg

7 August 1836

USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 1,540.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to AMALIE PLANER, Minna's sister Riga

9 Sept. 1837 [Russian old style, i.e. 21 Sept.]

USD 700.00 - 1,200.00 660.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed 'An die verehrten Herren Mitglieder des Orchesters' [to all members of the Theatre Orchestra] Riga

11 September 1838

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 4,950.00
WAGNER, RICHARD A Collection of 51 Autograph letters and 15 short notes, mostly signed, to ERNST BENEDIKT KIETZ, Paris, Dresden, Zurich, Lucerne, etc.

3 June 1840 to 21 May 1870

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 24,200.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Two Autograph letters, only one signed, to FERDINAND HEINE, Designer at the Dresden Court Theatre and close friend Paris

27 March 1841 and [end of January 1842]

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 6,050.00
WAGNER, RICHARD A Series of Five Autograph letters signed, to FERDINAND HEINE. Zurich

19 Nov. 1849; 4 Dec. 1849; 11 Aug. 1852; 11 Sept. 1852; 31 Oct. 1853

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 4,620.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to FERDINAND HEINE. Paris

8 November 1859

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 1,430.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Two Autograph letters to an unnamed correspondent [probably FERDINAND HEINE], both letters undated, [the first probably Zurich 1854]; the second unsigned, [and probably end of 1861]

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 770.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Two Autograph letters signed to MESSRS. STURM & KOPPE, Publishers of the journal Theater-Chronik in Leipzig Dresden

11 June 1843 and 24 October 1843

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 935.00
WAGNER, RICHARD A Series of 19 Autograph letters signed, to JOSEPH TICHATSCHEK Dresden, Zurich, Paris, Lucerne, etc.

18 July 1843 to 20 July 1871

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 8,800.00
WAGNER, RICHARD A Collection of 66 Autograph letters signed, one postcard and 4 telegrams to DR. ANTON PUSINELLI, between 1 August 1843 and 2 January 1877, from many different addresses.

USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 55,000.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to JOHANN KITTL, Director of the Prague Conservatory Dresden

6 Sept. 1843

USD 400.00 - 500.00 880.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Two Autograph letters signed, to KARL GAILLARD Editor of the Berliner Musikalische Zeitung Dresden

30 Jan. 1844 and 5 June, 1845

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 7,700.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to FRANZ LISZT at Vienna. Dresden

20 May, 1846 [post stamp 29 May]

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,860.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Two Autograph letters signed, to FERDINAND VON ZIEGESAR, Director of the Hoftheater Weimar Dresden and Zurich

3 March, 1849 and 10 May 1851

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,850.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to NATALIE PLANER Zurich

10 July 1849

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 605.00
WAGNER, RICHARD A Series of 15 Autograph letters, signed, to NATALIE PLANER. Zurich; Geneva; Venice; Lucerne

19 Nov. 1853, 9 Dec. 1858, 2 April 1866, 24 April 1867 to 7 October 1869

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 8,250.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Briefe an Theodor Uhlig, 9. August 1849 to 24 December 1852. Two manuscript copies made by Elsa Uhlig, the recipient's daughter, at the request of Wagner

USD 500.00 - 800.00 528.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed to KARL GOTTLIEB REISIGER, musical director of the Dresden Opera, and composer. Dresden

3 July 1848

USD 500.00 - 800.00 1,430.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Two Autograph letters signed. to HEINRICH WOLFRAM, his brother-in-law at Chemnitz. Weimar, 18 May 1849; and to CECILIE AVENARIUS, his sister at Berlin, Magdala 22 May 1849.

USD 700.00 - 900.00 825.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Two Autograph letters signed to FRANZ LISZT, at Weimar, Paris

6 & 9 February 1850

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 4,180.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to WILHELM BAUMGARTNER, Swiss Composer and very close Zurich friend of Wagner's. Thun

[end of June 1850]

USD 300.00 - 500.00 2,200.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Two Autograph drafts of letters, to be copied and sent by his wife Minna, to HEINRICH BROCKHAUS [Zurich], THEODORE APEL [Paris]

[2 February 1851]; [25 Oct. 1840]

USD 400.00 - 500.00 605.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Two Autograph letters signed, to OTTO [and JULIE] KUMMER, friend and violinist in the Dresden orchestra, Zurich 28 December 1852 and 15 August 1854

USD 400.00 - 500.00 1,210.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed to RAIMUND HARTEL of Breitkopf & Hartel. Zurich

5 February 1853

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 1,100.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph Letter signed [almost certainly to ROBERT FRANZ]. Zurich

23 Sept. 1853

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 2,640.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to WILHELM FISCHER in Dresden, Zurich

30 June 1853

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 4,400.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft in Zurich [Plan for a permanent orchestra], signed at end

[1853]

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 8,250.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed to HANS VON BULOW. Zurich

1 May 1854

USD 500.00 - 700.00 770.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph draft of letter, to be written by Minna, to BOTHO VON HULSEN General-Intendant, i.e. Director of the Berlin Opera [Zurich] signed in Richard Wagner's hand 'Minna W.'

[4 November 1854]

USD 300.00 - 500.00 440.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to KARL FRANZ BRENDEL. Zurich

4 February 1855

USD 300.00 - 500.00 1,210.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed correspondent. London

June 16, 1855

USD 500.00 - 600.00 1,760.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, in French, to Madame LEONIE PRAEGER. Seelisberg

3 November 1855

USD 1,300.00 - 1,700.00 2,420.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed correspondent [possibly KARL TAUSIG in Vienna]. Zurich

16 March 1858

USD 250.00 - 350.00 825.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter, unsigned, to MATHILDE WESENDONCK. Zurich

7 April 1858

USD 8,500.00 - 10,000.00 17,600.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Three Autograph letters signed, to HEINRICH ESSER Conductor of the Vienna Opera. Venice and Paris

3 Sept. 1858; 11 Nov. 1858; and 27 Sept. 1859

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 4,180.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed to HEINRICH ESSER. Lucerne

16 August 1866

USD 1,200.00 - 1,700.00 2,640.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed correspondent [almost certainly HEINRICH ESSER, then at Salzburg]. Lucerne

25 October, 1869

USD 700.00 - 900.00 1,100.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed to KLARA WOLFRAM, his sister. Lucerne

7 April 1859

USD 800.00 - 900.00 1,045.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, in French, to an unnamed correspondent undated. [Paris]

[after 1860?]

USD 100.00 - 150.00 605.00
WAGNER, RICHARD A Series of Four Autograph letters to AGNES STREET-KLINDWORTH, Pianist and pupil of Liszt. Paris; Biebrich

14 April, 22 May and 11 August 1860; 26 March 1862

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,520.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to PAULINE TICHATSCHEK. Mariafeld/Zurich

25 April 1864

USD 500.00 - 800.00 715.00
WAGNER, RICHARD A Series of Nine Autograph letters signed, to FRANZ and ANNA MRACZEK his servants at Munich. Lucerne, Geneva

5 April 1866 to 22 April 1870, [early 1866]

USD 500.00 - 800.00 3,960.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to HERR STURMER, friend in Zurich. Vienna

16 May 1861

USD 300.00 - 400.00 1,430.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, [to JULIUS FROBEL, friend and journalist in Vienna]. Munchen

6 October 1865

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 770.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed correspondent. Lucerne

14 December 1867

USD 150.00 - 200.00 1,045.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed [to Professor OSWALD MARBACH], undated [Lucerne Spring]

[1870]

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 4,180.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed to an unnamed correspondent [probably JOHANN FRANZ VON HERBECK, Director of the Vienna Opera]. Lucerne

19 March 1870

USD 500.00 - 700.00 1,045.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter to an unnamed correspondent. Lucerne

24 May 1870

USD 200.00 - 300.00 825.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, in French, to G. A. BONFANTINI, Printer. Lucerne

21 August 1870

USD 600.00 - 800.00 3,080.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Two Autograph letters signed to EDWARD DANNREUTHER in London, the first Lucern; the second Bayreuth

4 March 1872; 7 April 1877

USD 600.00 - 750.00 2,090.00
WAGNER, RICHARD A Collection of 80 Autograph letters [including 3 written by another hand, and one by his wife Cosima], all signed, all addressed to VOLTZ and BATZ, his agents, at Wiesbaden mostly from Bayreuth, four from Naples, others from Lucerne, Florence, Hanover 14

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 28,600.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Five Autograph letters signed, [all appear to be to E. W. FRITSCH, his publisher]. Lucerne, Bayreuth, Venice

11 April 1872; [May 1872]; 5 Jan. 1877; 2 Feb. 1878; 17 December 1882

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,420.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to FRIEDRICH FEUSTEL, Banker. Bayreuth

2 January 1873

USD 100.00 - 150.00 825.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed to GEORG UNGER. Bayreuth

20 October 1875

USD 150.00 - 250.00 1,540.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed correspondent [probably Lorenz von Dufflipp] Florence

11 December 1876

USD 150.00 - 200.00 935.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed [to ROBERT PROELSS]. Bayreuth

25 November 1877

USD 300.00 - 500.00 825.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed correspondent. Bayreuth

10 July 1882

USD 100.00 - 150.00 605.00
WAGNER, RICHARD A Collection of 116 Autograph letters, nearly all signed, and 18 telegrams, TO HIS WIFE MINNA.

from 6 May 1835 to 5 October 1865

USD 50,000.00 - 75,000.00 77,000.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Manuscript copy of Contract with G. FLAXLAND, granting him full rights for publication in French and Performance in France and Belgium for Tannhauser, Lohengrin and the Flying, Dutchman on 4 January 1860, in the hand of Cosima Wagner, in French, with lega

USD 350.00 - 550.00 1,210.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Manuscript copy in Minna's hand, of a letter to the Akademische Gesangverein in Vienna, 18 May 1861; copied from the 'Wiener Presse', dated 'Paris 24 Mai 1861'

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph list of payments received for occasional musical hackwork for Schlesinger in Paris, on verso payments for lodgings in Meudon [1841] one sheet [8cm square]---Receipted bill from the Hotel Meublee des M. Fourgault for M. Wagner, October 1839, for

USD 200.00 - 350.00 440.00
[WAGNER, RICHARD Tannhauser] A Collection of letters relating to the performance of Tannhauser in Paris in February and March 1861. Six letters addressed to Wagner and 3 others.

USD 150.00 - 200.00 506.00
[WAGNER] Autograph poem probably not in Wagner's hand, addressed to M[INNA] P[LANER], entitled 'Der dreizehnte Juli an M.P.

[1835?]

USD 75.00 - 100.00 66.00
WAGNER, MINNA Autograph draft of letter to DIRECTOR BETHMANN at the Magdeburg theatre, undated, with the draft of the same letter IN RICHARD WAGNER'S HAND, on verso of a draft letter by Minna rejecting an admirer

USD 400.00 - 550.00 385.00
WAGNER, MINNA Autograph manuscript draft, signed, to the KING OF SAXONY to permit Wagner's return from exile, undated [probably October 1854]

USD 350.00 - 450.00 4,620.00
[WAGNER, MINNA] A Collection of 44 letters addressed to her, including three from Anna Liszt, Franz Liszt's mother; four from Clara Wolfram, Wagner's sister; three from Louise Brockhaus, Wagner's other sister; three from Pauline Tichatschek, wife of the tenor; letter and

USD 400.00 - 600.00 3,960.00
FROMMANN, ALWINE A Collection of 11 Autograph letters signed, to MINNA WAGNER, but 2 of the letters incomplete, mostly Berlin

3 August 1855 to 30 December 1865

USD 125.00 - 175.00 Not Sold
PLANER, NATALIE Three Autograph letters signed, to MINNA WAGNER. Zwickau

4 Aug. 1858, 28 Dec. 1860 and 23 April 1861

USD 150.00 - 200.00 374.00
AVENARIUS, CAECILIE, Wagner's sister Autograph letter signed, to RICHARD WAGNER. Berlin

7 January 1852

USD 100.00 - 150.00 286.00
BULOW, COSIMA VON Two Autograph letters to MINNA WAGNER. Berlin

19 October 1858 (on envelope); and 27 May 1862;

USD 500.00 - 700.00 2,420.00
BULOW, HANS VON Autograph letter signed, to RICHARD WAGNER. Berlin

24 December 1855

USD 300.00 - 500.00 1,320.00
BULOW, HANS VON Autograph letter signed, to RICHARD WAGNER. [Berlin]

11 November [1860]

USD 250.00 - 350.00 715.00
BULOW, HANS VON Autograph letter signed, in French to an unnamed correspondent [the editor of a French musical journal]. Berlin

24 August, 1859

USD 250.00 - 350.00 330.00
LAUSSOT, JESSIE Autograph letter signed, to MINNA WAGNER. Bordeaux

7 April, 1850

USD 300.00 - 500.00 990.00
LISZT, FRANZ Autograph letter signed, to GAETANO BELLONI, his secretary at Mainz. Coblenz

18 August [early 1840’s]

USD 300.00 - 400.00 550.00
LISZT, FRANZ Autograph letter signed, to MINNA WAGNER. Weimar

27 July, 1849

USD 100.00 - 150.00 1,760.00
SCHINDELMEISSER, LUDWIG Autograph letter signed, to RICHARD WAGNER at Paris, Darmstadt

18 October 1860

USD 150.00 - 200.00 242.00
SPONTINI, GASPARO Autograph letter signed, to RICHARD WAGNER, in French, Berlin

2 Nov. 1844

USD 900.00 - 1,100.00 770.00
WESENDONCK, OTTO Three Autograph letters signed, to RICHARD WAGNER. Zurich, London

19 May 1855, the other two undated

USD 200.00 - 300.00 5,720.00
WAGNER, RICHARD LEUBALD, EIN TRAUERSPIEL.

[1827]

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 38,500.00
WAGNER, RICHARD OVERTURE IN D-MOLL. Full score of the first version, dated at end Leipzig, den

26ten September 1831’

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 27,500.00
WAGNER, RICHARD SONATE IN B-DUR FUR DAS PIANOFORTE

[1831]

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 16,500.00
WAGNER, RICHARD OUVERTURE ZU RAUPACH'S KONIG ENZIO. Reduction for piano 4 hands

[circa 1832]

USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 5,500.00
WAGNER, RICHARD DIE HOCHZEIT. Full score of 'Introduction: Choir und Septett'

[1832]

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 39,600.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [DIE FEEN] A Series of three Autograph manuscripts: A musical composition draft headed 'Scene u. Arie' [act II]; a set of orchestral parts including a voice part with cues, also headed 'Scene und Arie' [for an earlier concert version of this scene]; prose

[1833--1834?]

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 27,500.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [DAS LIEBESVERBOT] Piano reduction with French text of three numbers from the opera: CAVATINE DE CLAUDIO [piano-vocal score and voice part with cues]; TRIO [from act II, piano-vocal score]; CHANT DE CARNEVAL [two-piano reduction and voice part with cues],

USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 38,500.00
WAGNER, RICHARD AUTOGRAPH NOTEBOOK, in pencil, containing one page of UNIDENTIFIABLE MUSICAL SKETCHES, various other notes and the FIRST ROUGH PROSE-SKETCH OF THE FIVE ACTS OF HIS OPERA RIENZI, [the date Travemunde 1837 occurs amongst various names below] Blasewitz/Travemunde

circa 1837

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
WAGNER, RICHARD [RIENZI, DER LETZTE DER TRIBUNEN], A Series of five Autograph manuscripts, of the prose version, poem, libretto, French translation and musical score

[1837--1841]

USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 165,000.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [RIENZI] Draft for a reply to a critical review that had appeared in the Allgemeine Wiener Musik-Zeitung no. 16 & 17 of 9 February 1843 [undated, February 1843]

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 4,950.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [RIENZI] Zur Verkurzung der Auffuhrung meiner Oper Rienzi gebe ich hiemit folgende Auslassungen als am wenigsten entstellend an. Zurich

17 Juli 1858

USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 660.00
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