Sacred Reich - Supremacy

Comments are redundant here. It is interesting to note that Wagner himself and his closest friends called Ludwig II nothing more than Partzipal (using the “Eshenbach” version of the name), because it was Partzipal who was the sovereign of the Grail kingdom, the kingdom with which members of the “circle of initiates” associated with the court of Ludwig II associated themselves. (Recall that Wagner hatched a plan for writing his Parsifal from April 1857; Ludwig resurrected the composer's desire to translate it. Just in 1865, on the advice of his crowned friend, he outlined the poem “Partzipal”, while still calling his hero also “in Eshenbachian style.”) Here is what Wagner writes on June 4, 1865 to Ludwig Schnorr and his wife Malvina, the future performer of the role of Isolde in Tristan, forwarding them a letter from Ludwig II: “He (the king. - M. Z.) cares more about you than me. Good morning my darlingsnoble lions! Do you want to announce the desert again with our roar? In the end, we will be the only listeners. After all, Partzifal is also only part of our “we”. Warm greetings. Your R.V. A letter from Partzifal is a gift worthy of you. Accept him: he is yours. ”