The German poet Mathilde Wesendonck (1828-1902), author of the
texts of the Wesendonck Lieder, was the wife of Wagner's patron,
the wealthy silk merchant Otto Wesendonck. From 1852 until 1858,
the Wagners lived next to the Wesendoncks in Zurich and an intense
relationship developed between Wagner and Mathilde, subsequently
reflected in the impossible love at the heart of his opera Tristan
und Isolde. Prepared by the American musicologist Gustav Kobbe
(1857-1918), who provides a helpful connecting narrative, this 1905
translation of a selection of 'the most intimate and striking' of
Wagner's impassioned letters to Mathilde charts the course of the
opera's creation. Written between 1853 and 1863, the letters show
Wagner thinking aloud not only about Tristan but also the planning
of Parsifal. As Mathilde's letters to Wagner were destroyed, the
exact nature of their relationship and of her inspiration musically
will never be fully established.
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