July 26

On the 26th in 1882, Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal premiered in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany. Parsifal would be the last work from Wagner. He would die on February 13, 1883. It is unclear from contemporary sources exactly how many of those in attendance committed suicide. The pianoforte solo in Franz Liszt's La lugubre gondola was written for Wagner and conjures a black-shrouded funerary gondola bearing Richard Wagner's body on the Grand Canal in Venice.

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