Siegfried (Bilingue)

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to make Wagner's work more accessible for research and performance, but the edition only reached 10 volumes - some with grave shortcomings - and was discontinued after Balling's death in 1925. A further attempt at a complete edition by Otto Strobel was abandoned at the preliminary stages. This third attempt at a complete edition will be the first scholarly, critical edition, based on an evaluation of all the accessible source materials and the latest findings of serious Wagner research. As the edition is also intended for practical performance, the musical text has been kept free of philological insertions ; these are listed in the appendices of each volume in the Critical Commentary. Numerous, partly unpublished works - some relatively unknown - and variant versions are published here for the first time. The edition presents authentic texts for Wagner specialists and researchers and critically based performing materials. Contrary to widely held opinions, even the well-known works of Wagner are not necessarily available in reliable editions. The genesis, history and performances directed by Wagner himself are extensively documented so as to present as complete an image as possible of Wagner's compositional intentions.

Choral Works - Partition et notes critiques.

Edition enrichie de Jean-François Candoni comportant une préface et un dossier sur le roman. 

Richard Wagner s'est voulu tout autant écrivain et penseur que compositeur, homme de théâtre et chef d'orchestre. Son autobiographie est une fresque haute en couleur, riche en événements et en rencontres exceptionnelles. C'est aussi un formidable témoignage sur la vie artistique et intellectuelle du XIXe siècle. 

Artiste polymorphe, Wagner a épousé toutes les tendances de son siècle, et il en résume toutes les contradictions : se côtoient chez lui cosmopolitisme et nationalisme, goût de la provocation et soif de reconnaissance sociale, amour du prochain et pulsions racistes, mysticisme religieux et sensualisme, goût pour le monumental et fascination pour le détail. La lecture de Ma vie permet de cerner cette personnalité paradoxale, excessive et fascinante.

Ma vie

Siegfried (L'avant Scène Opéra, #229)

An important addition to our newly produced orchestral materials is the first publication of vocal scores of Wagner's ten great operas, in every important version, based on the Complete Edition. The score corresponds to the performance materials from the Complete Edition. For practical use in rehearsal cues and bar numbers throughout. The publisher has secured the services of renewed musicologists associated with the Richard Wagner Complete Edition who convey detailed information in critical forewords. The forewords are given in three languages(German, English, French). Uniform and attractive front cover designs with reproductions of paintings from the Wagner era underline the series design of the edition. DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is today still considered a German festival and national opera : this evaluation is borne out by the opera's performance history, the history of its reception and customary performance practice. Critical minds will perhaps recall the quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche's publication "Jenseits von Gut und Böse" [Beyond Good and Evil] in which the Vorspiel [Prelude] to Meistersinger is described as 'magnificent, ornate and ponderous art' and Wagner's music in general as being 'rough and coarse'. This music according to Nietzsche possesses 'no trace of the fine southern clarity of the sky and nothing of grace', but instead 'a cumbersome garb, with a touch of licentious barbarism and solemnity' and 'even a certain degree of ungainliness'. Nietzsche's evaluation is regarded by many as an insight into the essence of the matter, although it is evident that Nietzsche was exaggerating in order to be provocative. What is more important today is however that this characterisation appears to have been the result of an approach to the performance of Meistersinger which had neglected or even gone as far as to misappropriate elements of this work. This is also the conclusion reached in the Meistersinger Edition of the Critical Complete Edition of the Musical Works of Richard Wagner (Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, Vol. 9, I-III, edited by Egon Voss, Mainz 1979-1987). It has in fact been established that the first print of the score published by B. Schott's Söhne in Mainz in 1868 contained numerous errors and omissions, particularly with regard to dynamic markings and articulation. The difference between staccato dots and dashes which has an influence on the tone was simply ignored. The substantial omission of these staccato markings unambiguously draws attention to the fact that Wagner intended a lighter-weight sound than was produced in adherence the first edition. The same also holds true for the dynamic markings which were submitted to a general levelling process in the first edition, thereby entirely masking their original broad scope of differentiation. [... ] When the saying 'the music sets the tone' is cited, it is in actual fact tempo, dynamics which are implied. If the new findings incorporated into the Meistersinger edition of the Critical Complete Edition are taken seriously, this will inevitably produce a new Meistersinger sound. " (Egon Voss, quoted from the foreword of the new Meistersinger vocal score ; translated by Lindsay Chalmers-Gerbracht) WWV 96

Wagner Urtext-Klavierauszüge

An important addition to our newly produced orchestral materials is the first publication of vocal scores of Wagner's ten great operas, in every important version, based on the Complete Edition. The score corresponds to the performance materials from the Complete Edition. For practical use in rehearsal cues and bar numbers throughout. The publisher has secured the services of renewed musicologists associated with the Richard Wagner Complete Edition who convey detailed information in critical forewords. The forewords are given in three languages(German, English, French). Uniform and attractive front cover designs with reproductions of paintings from the Wagner era underline the series design of the edition. PARSIFAL "This piano reduction corresponds to the edition of Parsifal contained in the critical Complete Edition of the musical works of Richard Wagner (Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, Vol. 14, I-III, edited by Egon Voss and Martin Geck, Mainz 1972f.) The chief source for the edition was Wagner's autograph score, as the first printed score dating from 1883 on which all previous editions had been based had not been authorised by the composer and displayed significant deviations in comparison with the autograph. Further details can be found in the above-mentioned volumes of the Complete Edition. " (Amélie Pauli, quoted from the foreword of the new Parsifal vocal score ; translated by Lindsay Chalmers-Gerbracht) WWV 111

Les Maîtres Chanteurs/Die Meistersinger

Le Crépuscule des Dieux (L'avant Scène Opéra, #230)

With more than 1, 200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition. Instrumentation : soloists and orchestra WWV 90

Siegfried (Bilingue)

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