MUSI 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mathilde Wesendonck, Wesendonck Lieder, Strasbourg
25 May 2016
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Final papers submitted on culearn by april 4 at midnight. March 24: undergraduate presentations (10 to 15 minutes) Wagner"s inspiration for tristan: mathilde wesendonck, schopenhauer, strassbourg. Provided poetry for 5 songs (for wesendonck songs that wagner composed) Song cycle consisting of 5 songs for mathilde wesendonck. Wagner started reading schopenhauer before composing tristan. The world as will and representation: the will = craving. Music is purest art as it does not copy ideas (unlike other arts) Tristan"s troubled past, completed in 1859, performed in 1865. First thought paris, but tannhauser disaster in 1861, 3 prelude performances in 1860. Thought karlsruhe opera in vienna, but there were problems. Thought vienna court opera, after 70 rehearsals, the tenor alois ander deemed it impossible and unperformable, Thought munich, but soprano had hoarse voice and could not perform. Munich: 1865: ludwig schnorr: tristan, malvina schnorr: isolde, one month later, schnorr sings his final leitmotif at age of 29.
