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Lot 54
WAGNER RICHARD: (1813-1883) German Composer. An unusual printed 8vo page annotated by Wagner, being the introduction to a publication relating to the composer's opera Tannhauser, the German text to the recto and verso of the page, removed from a First Edition work published by Schulthess of Zurich, August 1852. At the head of the first page Wagner has added the words 'Programm der Ouvertüre zu Tannhäuser' in his hand. A thin strip of sellotape staining to the left edge, not affecting the printed text or Wagner's holograph annotation. Some very light, minor creasing, about VG Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (1845) is an opera in three acts with music and text by Wagner, inspired by two German legends. The story centres on the struggle between sacred and profane love, and redemption through love, a theme running through much of Wagner's mature work. Wagner made a number of revisions of the opera throughout his life and was still unsatisfied with its format when he died. The most significant revision was made for the opera's premiere in Paris in 1861. The opera remains a staple of major opera house repertoire in the 21st century.Richard Wagner is primarily known for his operas (or 'music dramas' as some of his later works were known) and, unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and music for each of his stage works. The composer revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ('total work of art') and described his vision in a series of essays published between 1849-52. Wagner's most important operas continue to be performed annually at the Bayreuth Festival, run by his descendants. The effect of Wagner's ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century; his influence spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theatre.
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Lot 206
Photograph Album Wagner Festival Bayreuth 1931, Fascinating photographic account of a British couples journey from England via Belgium and the Rhine to Bayreuth to performances by Wagner of Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung in July 1931. Very well captioned and clear photographs, throughtout, maps, brochures postcards of the sets, Wagner family and stars of the performances etc. c.200 photographs, cards, maps etc. vgc in large photograph album
Lot 556
A good Third Reich stereoscopic picture book, “Die Nationalsozialistischen Musterbetriebe”, volume 3, published by Gauverlag Bayerische Ostmark Bayreuth, 1939, containing 8 plates each of 3 stereoscopic photographs, the text divided into sections, covering the achievements of the organisations and industries of the Third Reich, the thick hollow covers containing a further 200 stereoscopic photographs and a folding metal viewer, the covers covered with coarse linen embossed with a red and gold standard with DAF cogwheel in the centre, and the title in gold. VGC for age (the viewer paint slightly crazed).
Lot 348
A good Third Reich stereoscopic picture book, “Die Nationalsozialistischen Musterbetriebe”, volume 3, publised by Gauverlag Bayerische Ostmark Bayreuth, 1939, containing 8 plates each of 3 stereoscopic photographs, the text divided into sections, covering the achievements of the organisations and industries of the Third Reich, the thick hollow covers containing a further 200 stereoscopic photographs and a folding metal viewer, the covers covered with coarse linen embossed with a red and gold standard with DAF cogwheel in the centre, and the title in gold. VGC for age (the viewer paint slightly crazed)
Lot 1616
Hoffmann, Anton. 1863 Bayreuth - 1938 Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Schlachtenszene. Öl/Lw.Signiert mit Ortsbez. u. li. Anton Hoffmann Muenchen. 58 x 88 cm / R. 96 x 125 cm.- Hoffmann war ein überaus virtuoser Historienmaler, insbesondere von Kriegsszenen mit Pferden, deren Dynamik der Künstler expressiv herausarbeitet. Nach neun Jahren Dienst bei der Bayerischen Armee ging Hoffmann 1889 an die Kunstakademie München und wurde dort Schüler von Gabriel von Hackl und Wilhelm von Diez. Seit 1896 stellte er regelmäßig im Glaspalast aus.
Lot 148
MOTTL FELIX: (1856-1911) Austrian Conductor and Composer. A.N.S., Felix Mottl, one page, 8vo, Bayreuth, 18th January 1901, to an unidentified correspondent, in German. Mottl, from Bayreuth, refers to Wagners´opera Parsifal, and states in full `That is right; according to Grale´smercy, the evil is defeated when the good is returned. (Parsifal I.)´. A small tear to the lower edge not affecting the text or signature, and small remnants from previous mounting, otherwise G £100-150 Parsifal (1882) is one the most acclaimed Wagner´s operas.
Lot 153
KNAPPERTSBUSCH HANS: (1888-1965) German Conductor. Best known for his performances of Wagner´s music, & Wilhelm Pitz (1897-1973) German Choirmaster. Vintage signed postcard photograph by Knappertsbusch & Pitz, the image depicting both artists standing outdoors, in a half length pose, debating in Bayreuth. Individually signed by both in bold black ink across the image. EX £100-150
Lot 298
GÖRING HERMANN: (1893-1946) German Political & Military Leader of the Nazi Party. A very interesting D.S., Göring, three pages, folio, Berlin, 26th June 1934, in German. The partially printed document is a contract hiring Alexander Kipnis to perform at the Berlin State Opera from 1st October 1934 until 31st August 1937 and establishes full terms and conditions. Signed in bold black ink by Göring in his capacity as Minister President of Prussia. The contract remained unsigned by Kipnis. With revenue stamp to the upper left corner. Professionally mended and reinforced at the joint. VG £600-800 Alexander Kipnis (1891-1978) Jewish Russian born Bass. Despite anti-semitism in Bayreuth, Jewish performers such as Alexander Kipnis and Emanuel List performed in Parsifal during the 1933 Festival. When all Jewish artists were dismissed from the Berlin State Opera on June 1933, Kipnis and List were allowed to remain, thus Kipnis was still under contract in Spring 1934. Kipnis broke this contract in 1935 and flee Nazi Germany
Lot 568
AL-AZM HAQQI: (1864-1955) First Prime Minister in Republican Syria 1932-34. L.S., H. El Azm, President du conseil des ministres, two pages, 8vo, Damas, 16th July 1933, to General de Granrut, Superior Commandant of the Levant Troops in Bayreuth, in French. On the printed stationery of the President of the Ministers Council, Syrian Republic, Al-Azm sends his congratulations to his correspondent for the award recently received and for his services to France and to Syria. Boldly signed in red ink. EX £80-100 Louis Paul de Bigault du Granrut (1872- ?) French General. Chief Commandant of the Levant Troops.
Lot 319
Opera. An operatic archive, late 19th and 20th century, including a scrap album of '150 opera programmes' 1895-1931, mostly Wagner productions at Covent Garden and Bayreuth, mostly letterpress broadside programmes including small format mounted singly and as multiples to rectos of 50 leaves, manuscript index at rear, contemporary cloth, rubbed and soiled, second album containing further opera programmes circa 1912-25, plus cuttings and real photo postcards of operatic performers, contemporary cloth, rubbed and soiled, leather label to spine, plus an assorted collection of mostly 20th-century opera programmes, photographs, etc., loosely contained in a modern ring binder, folio (3)
Lot 95
STEINER Hunter 35mm Viewfinder Camera w/ Steiner-Bayreuth 1:3,5/4. Halina Simplette Instant Load Film Camera + Case. Bell & Howell Autoload camera. Russian 35mm SLR camera. Beirette VSN 35mm Viewfinder Camera with Case. COMET S Bencini CMF 1950's Italian Camera 3x4 127. Viscount Coronet 1950s 35mm Camera. Miranda 35 AF Auto Focus.
Lot 462
A German Royal Bayreuth ceramic jug modelled as playing cards with handle modelled as Mephisto, height 18.5cm, a further Continental vase with gilt heightened decoration, height 22cm, and a pair of miniature cylindrical vases with encrusted floral decoration (af) (4). CONDITION REPORT: Jug - considerable surface dirt which should be removable, rubbing to some parts of "Mephisto" handle, one of the horns is chipped, firing flaw to spout. ovoid vase - little wear to gilding, some surface scuffs. Pair of miniature vases - damage to both applied decoration, rubbing to gilding on feet. Postage within UK would be £18 + VAT.
Lot 282
*Victorian autograph albums. A pair of autograph albums, late 19th century, containing approximately 400 mostly clipped autographs, but also including some free fronts and a few letters, autographs include Queen Victoria, Prince Alfred (ALS), King George III, King George IV (x2), Dukes of Clarence, Cumberland, Kent, Cambridge, Gloucester, Admiral St. Vincent, Robert Peel, Matthew Arnold, Samuel Rogers, Martin Tupper, Thomas Hughes, Anthony Trollope, Cardinal Wiseman, etc., many closely cut and mounted in crowded multiples, some items loose and many leaves blank, many with contemporary printed biographical caption beneath, plus a third turn-of-the-century photo album containing 24 leaves (faded) snapshots of Bayreuth, Dresden, Norfolk, etc., plus autographs signed straight into the album including some autograph musical quotations signed by Edward German, Dolly Paget, Frances Gekyll, etc., all albums somewhat broken with leaves detached, contemporary morocco, worn, 4to (3)
Lot 762
OPERA: Selection of vintage signed 4 x 6 postcard photographs and slightly larger by various opera singers including Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Theo Adam, Luciano Pavarotti & Helen Donath, Eberhard Waechter, Hans Hotter, Waldemar Kmentt, Nicola Zaccaria, Hans Sachs, Hans Beirer, Gerd Feldhoff, Hermin Esser, Aldo Protti, Jean Cox, Herbert Alsen, Alfred Poell, Giuseppe Zampieri, Svet Svanholm, Dimiter Usunov, Leonie Rysanek, Helga Dernesch etc.. Many of the images depicting the singers in costume poses from various Bayreuth Festivals of the 1960s. VG, 24. £100-120
Lot 1016
GÖRING HERMANN: (1893-1946) German Political & Military Leader of the Nazi Party. A very interesting D.S., Göring, three pages, folio, Berlin, 26th June 1934, in German. The partially printed document is a contract hiring Alexander Kipnis to perform at the Berlin State Opera from 1st October 1934 until 31st August 1937 and establishes full terms and conditions. Signed in bold black ink by Göring in his capacity as Minister President of Prussia. The contract remained unsigned by Kipnis. With revenue stamp to the upper left corner. Professionally mended and reinforced at the joint. VG £600-800 Alexander Kipnis (1891-1978) Jewish Russian born Bass. Despite anti-semitism in Bayreuth, Jewish performers such as Alexander Kipnis and Emanuel List performed in Parsifal during the 1933 Festival. When all Jewish artists were dismissed from the Berlin State Opera on June 1933, Kipnis and List were allowed to remain, thus Kipnis was still under contract in Spring 1934. Kipnis broke this contract in 1935 and flee Nazi Germany
Lot 2732
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Germany, Augsburg, Religious Box Medal (Schraubmedaille), c.1720, containing 23 hand-coloured roundels, by P P Werner, bust of Christ to right, nimbate and by drapery, rev the angels climb Jacob’s ladder, WANN IACOB IM HERREN RVHT. IST VBER IHN DER ENGEL HUT, 43.5mm, roundels of King Augustus II of Saxony, the Electress Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, a cleric and 20 of biblical scenes, the text marked on each (see Goppel 1151 for reverse; Koch -; Whiting -). Medal and contents very fine, very rare. The roundels probably all designed by Gottfried Rogg and engraved by Abraham Reinshart, though their separate signatures appear on one roundel each.
Lot 82
General horological reference - twenty volumes: Huber, Martin and Banbery, Alan PATEK PHILIPE, GENEVE Antiquorum, Geneva 1988, dj; Jacquet, Eugene and Chapius, Alfred HISTOIRE ET TECHNIQUE DE, LA MONTRE SUISSE, DE SES ORIGINES A NOS JOURS Editions Urf Graf Bale et Olten, Switzerland 1945; Guye, Samuel and Michel, Henri UHREN UND MESSINSTRUMENTE des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts Orell Fussli Verlag, Zurich 1971, dj; Tardy LA PENDULE FRANCAISE, DES ORIGINS A NOS JOURS, 3'me Partie published by the author, Paris 1964, softbound; Jacquet, Eugene and Chapius, Alfred THE HISTORY OF THE SELF-WINDING WATCH 1770-1931 Editions du Griffon, Neuchatel 1956; Tyler, E.J. Schone alte Uhren Gondrom Verlag, Bayreuth 1976; Bassermann-Jordan, Ernst von ALTE UHREN UND IHRE MEISTER Georg D.W. Callwey, Munich 1979 (facsimile of the 1926 edition), dj; Bassermann-Jordan, Ernst von and Bertele, Hans UHREN Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig 1961, three copies including two with dj's; Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their History and development Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge 1981, dj; Chapius, Alfred and Droz, Edmond LES AUTOMATES, FIGURES ARTIFICIELLES D'HOMMES ET D'ANIMAUX, HISTOIRE ET TECHNIQUE Editions du Griffon, Neuchatel (undated); auction catalogue THE ART OF BREGUET Antiquorum, Geneva, Sunday 14th April 1991, dj; Patrizzi, Oswaldo and Sturm, Fabienne X. Schmuckuhren 1790-1850 Callwey Verlag, Munich 1979, dj; Becker, Karl-Ernst and Kuffner, Hatto Battenberg Antiquitaten-Kataloge, Uhren Battenberg Verlag, Munich 1978, softbound; Lunardi, Heinrich and Trachsler, Beat Beim dritten Ton war es genau G.S. Verlag, Basel 1976; Muhe, Richard UNREN UND ZEITMESSUNG Historische Uhrensammlung der Fachhochschule, Furtwangen 1974, dj; Ullyett, Kenneth BRITISH CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS Collins, London 1947, dj; Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World N.A.G. Press Limited, London 1982; Britten, F.J. OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES & THEIR MAKERS fifth edition, E. and F.N. Spon Limited, London 1922, (20).
Lot 369
A .700 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY ALBRECHT A BAYREUTH, CIRCA 1750, FROM THE GUNROOM OF THE COUNTS VON GIECH with signed blued octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, engraved with a band at the breech, plain tang, signed stepped lock engraved en suite with the breech, fitted with detent and double set trigger, figured walnut full stock moulded over the fore-end, carved with scrolls about the rear ramrod-pipe and the breech, the butt with carved cheek-piece on the left and patchbox with carved sliding cover on the right, brass mounts comprising stepped solid side-plate, trigger-guard, butt-plate and rear ramrod-pipe all matching the breech, two further ramrod-pipes, steel sling swivel (the rear stud missing), horn fore-end cap, horn-tipped wooden ramrod, and in very good, perhaps unfired, condition 69 cm; 27 1/4 in barrel Provenance The Sporting Gun Collection of the Counts von Giech, removed from Schloss Thurnau, Franconia, sold Sotheby's 21 May 1974, lot 125. Two makers of this name, at this date, are recorded in Bayreuth.
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