DER JUNGE KöNIG & SEIN ERSTES SCHLOß - LINDERHOF

Museum Pictures of the title collage: Ferdinand Piloty (the younger), King Ludwig II as grand master of the royal Bavarian order of knights of the sacred Georg, 1867, gouache on paper, private collection, H. Breling, Linderhof Castle with fountain, 1882, watercolour, Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung

Ludwig's enthusiasm for Wagner is given a particular manifestation in the park buildings of his first palace: the Venus grotto as an expression of the Hörselber-scene in the first act of Tannhäuser, the Hundinghütte as in the first act of the Walküre, and the Einsiedelei of Gurnemanz as in the third act of Parsifal. Included are beautiful historical recordings of wellknown keyscenes (for example the Wedding march from Lohengrin, Ride of the Valkyries), with such great Wagnerians like Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini, Hans Knappertsbusch and orchestras of the state operas of Berlin, Dresden and Munich.