Richard WAGNER. Parsifal. Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel. Vom Orchester für das Klavier übertragen von Joseph Rubinstein (Mainz, B. Schott's Söhne, [1882]); fol. 2 ff., 261p. lithographed; contemporary binding in brown half-chagrin with corners (hinges and spine rubbed, corners dulled). First edition in first printing. Quotation 23406. More than 37 years passed, more than half of Wagner's life, from the first idea for Parsifal to its premiere in Bayreuth in 1882, and its publication, for which the publisher Schott had to pay 100,000 marks to acquire the work. A copy by composer Sylvio Lazzari (1857-1944), signed in ink at the top of the title page, and in pencil on the Personen page, with the date 1886 and the cast for the 1886 performances: Scheidemantel, Wiegand/Siehr, Winkelmann, Plank, Materna... Lazzari was one of the Frenchmen who made the pilgrimage to Bayreuth in 1886, as listed by A. Lavignac in his Voyage artistique à Bayreuth. Lavignac in his Voyage artistique à Bayreuth. A convinced Wagnerian, Lazzari was president of the Wagner Society in Paris. In Bayreuth, in the basement of the Villa Wahnfried, the manuscript room displays a similar copy of this "Erstdruck des Klavierauszuges".