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Description

Description

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 Numerous, partly unpublished works – some relatively unknown – and variant versions are published here for the first time.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.

Other editions

RWA 105-20 = score (complete edition), version 1845 with alternatives until 1860, part 2
RWA 105-30 = score (complete edition), version 1845 with alternatives until 1860, part 3 and critical commentary
AF 2945 = score (Dresden version)
LAF 4170-1 = performance material (Dresden version)
ETP 8061 = Eulenburg pocket score (Viennese version)
LS 5086-1 = performance material (Viennese version)
RWA 106-20 = score (complete edition), version 1861-1875 with alternatives, part 2
RWA 106-10 = score (complete edition), version 1861-1875 with alternatives, part 1
RWA 105-10 = score (complete edition), version 1845 with alternatives until 1860, part 1
SEM 8035 = libretto
ED 20469 = piano reduction (Dresden, Paris and Viennese versions), edited after the complete edition