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

Date: 1882

## The fact

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.

It is one event.

## 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](/people/richard-wagner)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

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.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Bayreuth Festival — official site (https://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/en/; Bayreuther Festspiele).

## Significance

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

Keep the monopoly sibling.

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

## What is established and what is not

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

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Richard Wagner.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Richard Wagner: https://factrail.ai/people/richard-wagner

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Wagner,_Richard
- https://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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