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Already celebrated for its compositional technique and mystical sonorities at the premiere, its world of ideas has stimulated new debates and interpretations over and over again to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWagner wrote the autograph score almost entirely in violet ink, a colour he preferred to use in the final years of his life. He meticulously planned the layout of the pages and finally gave the autograph to his wife Cosima - it always remained in the family's possession as a guarded treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe facsimile edition in high-quality four-colour printing reproduces the extensive score in its original size. Act and bar numbers on every page facilitate its use without diminishing the overall bibliophile appearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn an accompanying essay (Ger\/Eng), Ulrich Konrad elucidates the special features of the work and the manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis autograph score of Parsifal has received the \"Presto Sheet Music Award 2020\" for the best deluxe publication 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFacsimile: Parsifal WWV 111:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct III\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFacsimile: Appendix: First draft score of the Prelude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommentary: \"Through compassion, knowing: the pure fool\":\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGestation. The literary context of the Grail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKing Ludwig II and Parzival\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStarting work I. Poem and full-length drafts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe première in the Festival Theatre in Bayreuth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVenetian finale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Has Wagner ever done anything better?\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe autograph\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKommentar: \"Durch Mitleid wissend, der reine Tor\":\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVorgeschichte. Die literarische Welt des Grals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKönig Ludwig II. and Parzival\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAns Werk I. Dichtung and Gesamtentwürfe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAns Werk II. 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What sounds today as if it could never have been otherwise, in reality dates back in part to earlier Bach pieces that he retexted and adapted for the new purpose. The autograph ‘betrays' Bach's working methods in the very first chorus: first he underlaid the words of a version from the birthday cantata Tönet ihr Pauken only to cross them out and replace them with the famous Jauchzet, frohlocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther passages in the autograph likewise reveal traces of self-borrowing. Some corrections allow the reader to look over the composer's shoulder, as it were, and watch him transforming an aria step by step into its present form or struggling to find a definitive version for a short recitative. in contrast, other pages are written out in an immaculate fair hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis facsimile edition presents the autograph score of the Christmas Oratorio for the first time in a high quality four-colour reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBach specialist Christoph Wolff has provided an Introduction on the work's genesis and the features of the manuscript. 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Apart from the many corrections there are several torn-out pages. Sometimes Beethoven could only proceed by stitching replacement pages into the manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven authority Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen unveils the stages of its genesis in an understandable and rather detective-like manner. in addition Martina Rebmann, head of the music department, explains how this and other autographs were gradually acquired for the Beethoven collection in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced in high-quality four-colour printing, the facsimile replicates the page stubs and fold-out pages, thereby emulating the feel of the original source. Judicious inscriptions with movement headings, continuous pagination, scholarly foliation and measure numbers help readers to find their way more easily in the manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e»One of the most grandiose artistic working processes ever documented in the history of music«\nHans-Joachim Hinrichsen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFacsimile: Missa solemnis, Op. 123:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKyrie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCredo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBenedictus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAgnus Dei\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommentary:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeethoven's workshOp. Introduction to the work and autograph\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the history of the Beethoven Collection in Berlin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKommentar:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeethovens Werkstatt. 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