Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel

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Excerpt from Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel: With a Brief History of the Bayreuth FestivalsRundschau my father last year jotted down his reminiscences of Richard Wagner. Shortly afterwards Frau Wagner gave her most gracious consent to the publication of all the master's letters to my father. The next step, therefore, obviously was to publish both reminiscences and letters in one and the same volume. I undertook their combination.In order to weld the two into one whole, a complete remodelling of the reminiscences was unavoidable. Their subjective character has been preserved, however, even where it was tinged with a certain polemical colour from the days of war.As to Wagner's letters themselves, in very few cases has it been requisite to make omissions. These are scrupulously indicated in the text.Since, according to Bismarck's epigram, the publication of private letters almost always sets their author in his shirt-sleeves on the balcony, many a circumstantial explanation of minor points has become necessary, not to give spiteful neighbours too many opportunities for misconstruction. The reproducing of such details undoubtedly thrusts the narrator more into the foreground than he himself could wish y'et, in a book of memoirs, that danger is not easy to avoid. Does it really need apology?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.