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Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on the medieval 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg.
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy. Macmillan. ISBN 0-8050-7189-X. Mayrberger, Carl. 1994 [1881]. "Die Harmonik Richard Wagner’s an den Leitmotiven aus Tristan und Isolde (1881)", translated and annotated by Ian Bent. In Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1: Fugue, Form and Style, edited by Ian Bent, 221–252. Cambridge ...
" Liebestod" ([ˈliːbəsˌtoːt] German for "love death") is the title of the final, dramatic music from the 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner. It is the climactic end of the opera, as Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body. The music is often used in film and television productions of doomed lovers. [1]
Tristan und Isolde [3] L'Age d'Or: 1930 Luis Buñuel: Tristan und Isolde [3] Murder! 1930 Alfred Hitchcock: Tristan und Isolde [1] City Streets: 1931 Rouben Mamoulian: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [2] A Farewell to Arms: 1932 Frank Borzage: Tristan und Isolde [4] The Scarlet Empress: 1934 Josef von Sternberg "Ride of the Valkyries" [2] R.A.F ...
Tristan und Isolde English: Tristan and Isolde Score [54] Handlung [T 5] 3 Acts 1857–59: 10 June 1865: Munich, Hofoper: Based in part on Gottfried von Strassburg's medieval epic, also believed to be an idealisation of Wagner's love for Mathilde Wesendonck [39] [55] [56] 96: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg English: The Mastersingers of ...
Katharina Wagner, the Bayreuth festival director and great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, wanted to get in touch. Self-loathing blends with love at Bayreuth 'Tristan und Isolde' by ...
Wagner himself called two of the songs "studies" for Tristan und Isolde, using for the first time certain musical ideas that are later developed in the opera. In "Träume" can be heard the roots of the love duet in Act 2, while "Im Treibhaus" (the last of the five to be composed) uses music later developed extensively for the prelude to Act 3.
After grave difficulties in rehearsal, Tristan und Isolde premiered at the National Theatre Munich on 10 June 1865, the first Wagner opera premiere in almost 15 years. (The premiere had been scheduled for 15 May, but was delayed by bailiffs acting for Wagner's creditors, [ 102 ] and also because the Isolde, Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld , was ...