Parsifal Vorspiel
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper; cardboard; wood
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Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1275140
Summary
Six player piano rolls in cardboard boxes with wooden inserts and lids covered in black embossed paper. With printed labels showing the titles on the ends of the boxes and rolls. On labels: A "No.1926./Parsifal Vorspiel/WAGNER/"; B "N0.12212./PAGANINI ETUDE/ No.3./La Campanella./F.LISZT"; C "N0.2141./ "Traumerei" /SCHUMANN/"; D "No. 2020./ VALSE,Op.70./ No.3./CHOPIN"; E "No. 2162./ 'Polonaise'/ in A Flat/ CHOPIN"; F Handwritten in ink on end of box "MENDELSSOHN/ RONDO/ CAPRICCIOSO" . "G.B.S." written on base of each box.
Makers and roles
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886), composer Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856), composer Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847), composer