Wesendonck Lieder topic
Also known as
- Add other possible names for this topic
The Wesendonck Lieder is a song-cycle composed by Richard Wagner while he was working on Die Walküre. This, and the Siegfried Idyll, are his only two non-operatic works that are still regularly performed.
The cycle is a setting of poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of one of Wagner's patrons. Wagner had become acquainted with Otto Wesendonck in Zürich, where he had fled on his escape from Saxony after the May Uprising in Dresden in 1849. For a time Wagner and his wife Minna lived together...
full article at wikipedia
With the exception of Wikipedia summaries and some images the
content on this page is typically distributed under
the Creative Commons
Attribution license or Public Domain.
The original description for this topic was automatically generated from the Wikipedia article "Wesendonck Lieder" licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License .
| Gallery | add |
There are no images for this topic yet.
Recent Discussions about Wesendonck Lieder
There are no conversations on this topic. Would you like to start one?
Start the Discussion »