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Who were the musicians in Richard Wagner's orchestra that arranged their own parts for their instruments?
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The six harpists (seven, if you count the one on stage) in Das Rheingold, the preliminary evening to the Ring cycle. The harpist Tombo approached Wagner during a rehearsal of the ending, the "Procession of the gods into Valhalla", to complain that the parts as written were unplayable. Wagner replied "You cannot expect me to be able to play the harp. You see what effects I want to achieve; now arrange your part as you like". Presumably Tombo and his fellow harpists did just that. This episode is recounted in several sources, one being Jonathan Brown's Great Wagner Conductors: a Listener's Companion, in the corrected edition of 2014. The place in which this occurred, where it is given in the source, is Munich. In that case it wasn't the first performance in 1869, which Wagner boycotted.
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