Portrait of Mathilde Wesendonck (1850) by Karl Ferdinand Sohn
Catalogue
WWV 91
Text
Poems by Mathilde Wesendonck
Language
German
Composed
1857 (1857)–1858
Scoring
voice and piano
Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91, is the common name of a set of five songs for female voice and piano by Richard Wagner, Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice). He set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck while he was working on his opera Tristan und Isolde. The songs, together with the Siegfried Idyll, are the two non-operatic works by Wagner most regularly performed.
WesendonckLieder, WWV 91, is the common name of a set of five songs for female voice and piano by Richard Wagner, Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme...
The words of five of her verses were the basis of Richard Wagner's WesendonckLieder; the composer was infatuated with her, and his wife Minna blamed Mathilde...
begin work on Tristan. While planning the opera, Wagner composed the WesendonckLieder, five songs for voice and piano, setting poems by Mathilde. Two of...
(Philips) Wagner, WesendonckLieder and Isoldes Liebestod, London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Colin Davis (Philips) Wagner, WesendonckLieder, BBC Symphony...
grenadiers (1839-40) 61 Lied Adieux de Marie Stuart (1840) 91 Lied WesendonckLieder (1858, third version; 1857-58, second and first version) 92 Lied Es...
numerous songs and other music. His orchestration of Richard Wagner's "WesendonckLieder" is still the most commonly performed version. He was also a teacher...
inspired highly chromatic and philosophical lieder that could be regarded as successors to Wagner's WesendonckLieder cycle. Others were as distant from those...
however, he set five of Mathilde's poems to music known today as the WesendonckLieder. This was an unusual move by Wagner, who almost never set to music...
Kubrick originally intended to feature "Im Treibhaus" from Wagner's WesendonckLieder, but the director eventually replaced it with Ligeti's tune feeling...
led to his banishment from Germany. After Wagner's affair with Mathilde Wesendonck in 1857, Minna mostly lived apart from him. In later years she developed...
her insightful performances of Brahms's Alto Rhapsody and Wagner's WesendonckLieder, as well as solo songs from the French, German and English repertoire...
(German: "Asylum"), the small cottage on Otto Wesendonck's estate in the Zürich suburb of Enge, which Wesendonck – a wealthy silk merchant and generous patron...
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