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Parsifal’s 1882 premiere still puts a new public score into the world even under a stage monopoly

On 26 July 1882 Parsifal was first heard. This Fact stores the new public score-and-hearing as education, not the Bayreuth-only stage policy. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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On 26 July 1882 Parsifal was first heard. This Fact stores the new public score-and-hearing as education, not the Bayreuth-only stage policy.

Context

Split monopoly rents. A score can be studied even when a stage is reserved. Later IMSLP-type files are the long door.

Richard Wagner’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Same 26 July 1882 as the monopoly row. Score-access and stage-exclusive share a spine. Later print and, much later, public-domain scores teach the work.

Why it matters

A new festival score is an education object even under a stage reservation.

Keep the monopoly sibling.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Richard Wagner

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.5 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.IMSLP — Richard Wagner scoresIMSLP / Petrucci Music Library · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Bayreuth Festival — official siteBayreuther Festspiele · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Bayreuth official Parsifal page and IMSLP’s public scores independently treat 1882 as the work’s dated public existence.

Established: 26 July 1882 Parsifal premiere as a heard work. Not established: that 1882 seats were a public good in price.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorRichard Wagner
  2. contributed toFactParsifal’s 1882 premiere still puts a new public score into the world even under a stage monopoly
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Parsifal’s 1882 premiere still puts a new public score into the world even under a stage monopoly. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/wag-parsifal-score

https://factrail.ai/facts/wag-parsifal-score

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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