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Mathilde Wesendonck, Isolde's Dream (Hardcover)
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Mathilde Wesendonck, Isolde's Dream (Hardcover)
Series: Amadeus
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Truly great compositions spring, like Athena from Zeus' skull, at
the juncture of genius and passion. In Mathilde Wesendonck:
Isolde's Dream, author Judith Cabaud calls on a host of heretofore
undiscovered resources to tell the story of Mathilde Wesendonck,
muse and paramour to Richard Wagner and, later, Johannes Brahms.
Alma Mahler, eat your heart out. In or about August 1857, Richard
Wagner's character changed. He abandoned Der Ring des Nibelungen,
the Gesamtkunstwerk he'd begun work on nearly a decade earlier,
tore through a short set of songs now known as the Wesendonck
Lieder, and dove headlong into Tristan und Isolde, "eine Handlung"
whose seminal influence would ricochet down the ensuing century of
Western romantic music. Why the dramatic shift? Wagner had been
struck by lightning - twice. The first bolt was sighted across
Europe; his name was Arthur Schopenhauer. The second was restricted
to a insular social world centered at the estate of Otto
Wesendonck, one of Wagner's patrons. Her name was Mathilde
Wesendonck, and this is her story.
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