Tristan und Isolde
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Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on Gottfried von Strassburg's medieval 12th-century romance Tristan
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld and his wife Malvina starring as Tristan and Isolde in the first performance
Photo of Wagner in Brussels, 1860
Painting of Mathilde Wesendonck (1850) by Karl Ferdinand Sohn
Photo of Hans von Bülow, who conducted the premiere
Mathilde Wesendonck
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Agnes Mathilde Wesendonck was a German poet and author. The words of five of her verses were the basis of Richard Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder; the composer was infatuated with her, and his wife Minna b
Tristan und Isolde
…regarded with great disdain. Tristan und Isolde was inspired in part by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, and by Wagner's relationship with his muse Mathilde Wesendonck. It explores existential themes such as that of mankind's insatiable striving and the transcendental nature of a love beyond death, and incorporates…
The villa of Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck in Zurich, Switzerland
Cover of Märchen u. Märchen Spiele by Mathilde Wesendonck (published: Düsseldorf, 1864)
Grave of Mathilde Wesendonck and family in Bonn, Germany