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Creator
Pecht, Frederich, 1814-1903
Call number
JOB 91-36
Physical description
4 items
Language
In German
Preferred Citation
Frederich Pecht papers relating to Richard Wagner, Music Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Music Division
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Autograph manuscript in an exercise book and 3 newspaper clippings with articles by Frederich Pecht. On title page of ms: Aus Richard Wagners Pariser Zeit / von Frederich Pecht. Allegemeine Zeitung, Beilage, N3 81, Donnerstag, 22. Marz, 1883. It covers Wagner's years in Paris, 1839-1840. Two of the clippings are entitled Aus Friedrich Pechts Lebenserinnerungen (V. 1864. Richard Wagner in Dresden; VI. Paris 1867) in Tägliche Rundschau Unterhaltungs-Belage, hrsg. von Dr. Friedrich Lange, Nr. 115, 121, dated 1894 May 20 and 27. The other, apparently from a Dresden publication, quotes from Pecht's reminiscences about Wagner in Paris, 1840.

Biographical/historical information

Frederich Pecht, a painter, was a close friend of Richard Wagner.

Scope and arrangement

Autograph manuscript in an exercise book and 3 newspaper clippings with articles by Frederich Pecht. On title page of ms: Aus Richard Wagners Pariser Zeit / von Frederich Pecht. Allegemeine Zeitung, Beilage, N3 81, Donnerstag, 22. Marz, 1883. It covers Wagner's years in Paris, 1839-1840. Two of the clippings are entitled Aus Friedrich Pechts Lebenserinnerungen (V. 1864. Richard Wagner in Dresden; VI. Paris 1867) in Tägliche Rundschau Unterhaltungs-Belage, hrsg. von Dr. Friedrich Lange, Nr. 115, 121, dated 1894 May 20 and 27. The other, apparently from a Dresden publication, quotes from Pecht's reminiscences about Wagner in Paris, 1840.

Administrative information

Custodial history

Purchased as having been formerly owned by Mary Banks Burrell, but the ms. is not listed in Catalogue of the Burrell collection of Wagner documents, letters and other biographical material. London : Nonpareil Press, 1929.

Source of acquisition

Purchase, Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc, 1978

Bibliography

Listed in: Richard Wagner Briefe : die Sammlung Burrell / hrsg. von John N. Burk. [Frankfurt am Main] : S. Fischer, 1953, [c1950]. Anhang A, 517-18

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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