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She wears a shawl over an elaborate-long-sleeved dress that exposes her shoulders and has a hat on over her centrally-parted dark hair.]
Portrait of Mathilde Wesendonck (1850) by Karl Ferdinand SohnOne source of inspiration for Tristan und Isolde was the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, notably his The World as Will and Representation, to which Wagner had been introduced in 1854 by his poet friend Georg Herwegh.
He only consented after she had two more children with Wagner; another daughter, named Eva, after the heroine of Meistersinger, and a son Siegfried, named for the hero of the Ring. In his autobiography Mein Leben, Wagner recalled once playing the part of an angel. The 1876 Festival consisted of three full Ring cycles (under the baton of Hans Richter).
Dresden (1842 - 1849)
Wagner had completed Rienzi in 1840. His most significant achievement, the monumental "Ring Cycle," consists of four epic operas: "Das Rheingold," "Die Walküre," "Siegfried," and "Götterdämmerung." This 18-hour masterpiece, which depicts themes of love, power, and redemption intertwined with German mythology, redefined the operatic form.
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His works remain an exhilarating challenge for any opera house, none more so than his 15-hour four-opera epic Der Ring des Nibelungen.He was however an ethnic German, the ninth child of Carl Friedrich Wagner, who was a clerk in the Leipzig police service, and his wife, Johanna Rosine (née Paetz), the daughter of a baker. The concept of opera expressed in "Opera and Drama" and in other essays effectively renounced the operas he had previously written, up to and including Lohengrin.
The opera, a political commentary set in ancient Rome, resonated with audiences and garnered critical acclaim. By the age of 11, he had penned his first drama, and at 16, he was already composing music, revealing a confidence that bordered on arrogance. The Wagners moved to the town the following year, and the foundation stone for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus ("Festival Theatre") was laid.
His parentage remains a subject of debate; he could be the biological son of police actuary Friedrich Wagner or the son of painter Ludwig Geyer, whom his mother married shortly after Richard's birth. In late 1820, Wagner was enrolled at Pastor Wetzel's school at Possendorf, near Dresden, where he received a little piano instruction from his Latin teacher.
His tumult with the authorities led him to live in exile for over a decade, during which he continued to produce significant works, including Tristan and Isolde and his seminal Ring Cycle. (The premiere had been scheduled for 15 May, but was delayed by bailiffs acting for Wagner's creditors, and also because the Isolde, Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld, was hoarse and needed time to recover.) The conductor of this premiere was Hans von Bülow, whose wife, Cosima, had given birth in April that year to a daughter, named Isolde, a child not of Bülow but of Wagner.
Cosima was 24 years younger than Wagner and was herself illegitimate, the daughter of the Countess Marie d'Agoult, who had left her husband for Franz Liszt.
He extended the introduction, and wrote a lengthy additional final section. While planning the opera, Wagner composed the Wesendonck Lieder, five songs for voice and piano, setting poems by Mathilde. only mediocre performances can save me! Wagner initially announced the first Bayreuth Festival, at which for the first time the Ring cycle would be presented complete, for 1873, but since Ludwig had declined to finance the project, the start of building was delayed and the proposed date for the festival was deferred.
Initially struggling to make ends meet while composing, Wagner's fortune began to change when King Ludwig II of Bavaria became an ardent supporter of his work. Wagner's first lessons in harmony were taken during 1828–31 with Christian Gottlieb Müller.