Portrait painting in oils on wood after the well known 1871 painting

by Franz von Lenbach by Richard Wagner

$200 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

318 x 234 mm. Slightly rubbed and blistered; some scratches and chips. One of the key figures in the history of opera, Wagner was largely responsible for altering its orientation in the 19th century. His programme of artistic reform, though not executed to the last detail, accelerated the trend towards organically conceived, through-composed structures, as well as influencing the development of the orchestra, of a new breed of singer, and of

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