Editorial 2012/3: über Wagner

The year 2013 will be devoted to the music of Richard Wagner. The classical music industry, feature pages of journals and magazines, and scholarship will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the master of Bayreuth. Our present issue may be one of the first publications to deal with Wagner in the context of this bicentennial. Many more will follow.This issue is part of the initiative www2013: (WagnerWorldWide 2013), which takes its point of departure from Thurnau. It began with the lecture series at the University of Bayreuth in the winter semester 2011–12. In June 2012 the baton will be passed to Shanghai, China, thereafter to Bern, Switzerland, and then to the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, before returning to Thurnau in December of 2013.