MUSI 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Richard Strauss, Kapellmeister, A-Flat Major
25 May 2016
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Wagner"s works were very difficult to perform takes lots of stamina. He was too nervous to go to the premiere. He sat in hotel zum schwanen in lucerne with his watch, and conducted silently. Wagner went from provincial german kapellmeister to international figure it was a. Orchestral timbres: divisi strings (violins i, ii) = 8 parts, triple woodwinds. Richard strauss said on lohengrin: the only significant advance in orchestration since berlioz . King henry the fowler: reigns over german tribes, brabantian tribe: setting. Friedrich of telramund: count of brabant: ortrud: wife/witch/pagan. Duke gottfried of brabant: missing child: elsa"s brother is missing, guardians: telramund and ortrud. They say elsa has murdered her brother, and everyone in community believes it. Elsa"s dream: act i, scene ii einsam in truben tagen . Listen to the grail motive at opening of her dream sequence. Quiet, dippy and dreamy at the beginning.
