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Richard Wagner Museum Graupa

Richard-Wagner-Straße 6
01796 Pirna OT Graupa

Phone/Fax +49.3501.548229

Web: www.richardwagnermuseum.de
E-Mail: wagnermuseum@pirna.de

Opening hours

Tuesday to Sunday/holidays:
9 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. –4 p.m.

except for January 1, Good Friday, December 24, 25, and 31.

The Lohengrin House in Graupa in Dresden-Pillnitz can be regarded as the oldest Richard Wagner Museum in Germany. In that large farmhouse of the Schaefer family, where Wagner drafted a sketch of the music for the opera “Lohengrin” during his summer stay in 1846, the Leipzig grammer school  teacher Prof. Max Gaßmeyer (1864-1935) founded a memorial together with the “Association for the Preservation of the Lohengrin House” from the collection he himself possessed and from the old Wagner friends. Original memorabilia from Wagner's period in Paris, Wagner and Liszt portraits, festival souvenirs from Bayreuth and above all photos of contemporary Wagner vocalists belonged to the foundation of the collection. Later, playbills, first editions of Wagner literature, instruments of the former Royal Chamber Orchestra of Dresden, which performed under Wagner's conductorship, and in the recent period an original death mask of Wagner were added. Since the last reopening in 1982 especially the period of Wagner's musical directorship in Dresden and his intensive intellectual-artistic relations with the musical director and revolutionary Democrat Karl August Roeckel are documented with numerous and significant materials.

Due to the urgent renovation of the building, at present an interim exhibition exists in the Old School of Graupa, Badstr. 3. Also, special events such as concerts, lectures, and special exhibitions will continue.

Germany possesses musical traditions and legacies of extraordinary value: Handel, Schuetz and Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Wagner - to mention only a few names - are composers who are known and treasured throughout the world. Their work has played a significant role in shaping a unique musical landscape.

Numerous orchestras, choruses, ensembles, renowned music festivals and series, music houses with museums, public archives and libraries, but also private collections preserve their musical heritage.

It is necessary to revitalize this inestimable fund again and again and to develop it for the present. At the same time, an important role befits the houses combined in the consortium of music museums of Germany. In them we encounter the work of the musicians and composers who have extraordinarily enriched the cultural nation of Germany. However, beyond the individual portrait, beyond the procurement of individual oeuvres, the music museums also contribute overall to the maintenance of musical tradition. The present brochure underscores this aspect of the synoptic presentation and invites the reader on a journey into the musical history of Germany. I hope this tour guide will be actively used and receive a large response.

Bernd Neumann, Member of the Lower House of the German Parliament
Minister of State with the Federal Chancellor
Commissioner of the Federal Government for Culture and Media

Quoted from: Foreword to the brochure "Music Museums in Germany", 2007.