Chris Walton, Beethoven’s Ninth under Wagner in 1872: The Annotated Score of Adolf Wallnöfer

July 2026, Volume 20, Number 2, 64–8.

Adolf Wallnöfer donated his score of the Ninth to the Wahnfried library in Bayreuth towards the end of his life. No other such annotated score survives. Wallnöfer’s is thus the most significant source for anyone wishing to know more about how Wagner conducted Beethoven.

With the kind permission of the Richard Wagner Museum and the Bern Academy of the Arts.

This article is free. You’ll have go through the checkout process to download the pdfs but you won’t be charged. Adolf Wallnöfer’s annotated score of Beethoven’s Ninth (one pdf per movement) is included automatically.