Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 255 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139940610
Serie:
Cambridge library collection. Music
Originaltitel:
Correspondence Selections
Inhalt:
The German poet Mathilde Wesendonck (1828–1902), author of the texts of the Wesendonck Lieder, was the wife of Wagner's patron, the wealthy silk merchant Otto Wesendonck. From 1852 until 1858, the Wagners lived next to the Wesendoncks in Zurich and an intense relationship developed between Wagner and Mathilde, subsequently reflected in the impossible love at the heart of his opera Tristan und Isolde. Prepared by the American musicologist Gustav Kobbé (1857‒1918), who provides a helpful connecting narrative, this 1905 translation of a selection of 'the most intimate and striking' of Wagner's impassioned letters to Mathilde charts the course of the opera's creation. Written between 1853 and 1863, the letters show Wagner thinking aloud not only about Tristan but also the planning of Parsifal. As Mathilde's letters to Wagner were destroyed, the exact nature of their relationship and of her inspiration musically will never be fully established
Inhalt:
Author's note -- 1. Tristan und Isolde in real life -- 2. A lovely exile in Venice -- 3. The moan of a breaking heart -- 4. An intermezzo at Lucerne -- 5. Vicissitudes in Paris -- 6. Such stuff as dreams are made of
Anmerkung:
Originally published: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781108078559
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108078559
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139940610
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