Prelude to Parsifal by Richard Wagner

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Prelude to Parsifal Richard Wagner/trans. Bourgeois* *Member, U.S. Marine Band. Col John R. Bourgeois, conducting. Performed by the Marine Band on April 7, 1996, at George Mason University's Center for the Arts Concert Hall.

Parsifal (WWV 111) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, a 13th-century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail.

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