1850-1899 Wagner signed Bayreuth Porcelain Plate with Thick Heavy Gold Rim

Description: This plate is a commemorative item for the Richard-Wagner-Festspiele Bayreuth. The text on the back: “Echt Cobalt” indicates that genuine cobalt was used in the decoration, and “Altrohlau K.u.K. Porzellan” refers to the porcelain manufacturer, Altrohlau. Additional details:Commemorative Significance: This plate celebrates the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, a significant event for Wagner enthusiasts.Manufacturer: Altrohlau was known for producing high-quality porcelain, often marked with “K.u.K.” indicating it was made during the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Value: Plates like these can vary in value, typically ranging from $800 to $3,000 depending on condition and rarity.Measures 8-1/2 inches in diameter. Decorated in thick, heavy gold. Signed Edelstein Bayreuth on the back. No chips or cracks. Wagner's music had a profound impact on the development of classical music and culture. He influenced composers like Mahler, Bruckner, and Strauss, as well as artists, writers, and philosophers.The last picture, in the photos I've uploaded, is the picture this plate was designed after.(Manufactured 1850-1899). Given the markings and the commemorative nature of the plate, it was likely manufactured around the time of the Richard-Wagner-Festspiele Bayreuth. The festival itself began in 1876, and commemorative items like your plate were often produced in the late 19th to early 20th century. So, it’s reasonable to estimate that this plate was made between 1876 and the early 1900s. About Richard Wagner, the man:Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and which was announced in a series of essays between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features. It was here that the Ring and Parsifal received their premieres and where his most important stage works continue to be performed in an annual festival run by his descendants. His thoughts on the relative contributions of music and drama in opera were to change again, and he reintroduced some traditional forms into his last few stage works, including Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg).Until his final years, Wagner's life was characterised by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors. His controversial writings on music, drama and politics have attracted extensive comment in recent decades, especially where they express antisemitic sentiments. The effect of his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century; their influence spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theatre.

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