Inside Villa Wahnfried
Richard Wagner. All photos from Villa Wahnfried by Per-Erik Skramstad with permission from the Museum.
The library or living room. Now used for small concerts.
The kettledrums used for the world premiere of Der Ring des Nibelungen in 1876.
The first room you enter on the ground floor.
Richard Wagner's specially designed Bechstein piano. Wagner used this piano when he composed Meistersinger, Siegfried Act 3, Götterdämmerung and Parsifal. The piano was a present from King Ludwig II on Richard Wagner's birthday in 1864.
King Ludwig II.
First floor at Villa Wahnfried.
The museum at Villa Wahnfried has PCs available for the public with updated cast information.
Main page about Villa Wahnfried
All photographs are taken with permission from Richard-Wagner-Museum / Nationalarchiv