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Creator
Schmole, Marie
Call number
JOB 91-35
Physical description
14 items
Language
In German
Preferred Citation
Marie Schmole papers relating to Richard Wagner, Music Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Music Division
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5 exercise books and 6 ALS from Marie Schmole, Dresden, to Mary Burrell, London, giving reminiscences of Richard Wagner from 1842 to 1849, at the request of Mrs. Burrell. The exercise books include: Richard Wagner in Dresden ; Von Rienzi zum Fliegenden Holländer ; Wagner als königl. Kapelmeister ; Wagner's Wirksamkeit als Kapelmeister ; Wagner als Politiker (Revolutionär). The 1st is labeled (in another hand): Aufzeichnungen. Accompanied by portraits of Ferdinand Heine and Marie Schole, and Frau Schmole's calling card.

Biographical/historical information

Marie Schmole was the daughter of Ferdinand Heine who was a friend of Richard Wagner and designer of sets and costumes at the Hoftheater in Dresden. Frau Schmole remembered the first productions of Rienzi and Tannhäuser.

Scope and arrangement

5 exercise books and 6 ALS from Marie Schmole, Dresden, to Mary Burrell, London, giving reminiscences of Richard Wagner from 1842 to 1849, at the request of Mrs. Burrell. The exercise books include: Richard Wagner in Dresden ; Von Rienzi zum Fliegenden Holländer ; Wagner als königl. Kapelmeister ; Wagner's Wirksamkeit als Kapelmeister ; Wagner als Politiker (Revolutionär). The 1st is labeled (in another hand): Aufzeichnungen. Accompanied by portraits of Ferdinand Heine and Marie Schole, and Frau Schmole's calling card.

Administrative information

Custodial history

Formerly owned by Mary Banks Burrell. Cf. Catalogue of the Burrell collection of Wagner documents, letters, and other biographical material. London : Nonpareil Press, 1929. Items 126, 141, 163, and 188.

Source of acquisition

Purchase, Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc, 1978

Bibliography

The 1st 4 exercise books and the portraits were published in: Richard Wagner Briefe : die Sammlung Burrell / herausgegeben und kommentiert von John N. Burk. [Frankfurt am Main] : S. Fischer, 1953, [c1950]

Using the collection

Location

Music Division
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor