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Agnes Mathilde Wesendonck (née Luckemeyer; 23
December 1828 – 31
August 1902) was a
German poet and author. The
words of five of her
verses were the basis...
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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...
- with the poet-writer
Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of the silk
merchant Otto
Wesendonck [de].
Wagner met the
Wesendoncks, who were both
great admirers...
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Arthur Schopenhauer, as well as by his
relationship with his muse
Mathilde Wesendonck. The opera,
which explores existential themes such as that of mankind's...
- Hugo
Wesendonck (24
April 1817 - 19
December 1900) was a
German entrepreneur,
lawyer and politician.
Wesendonck was the
third son of five
children of the...
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Villa Wesendonck in
Reiterpark from 1849 to 1858
where he
worked on Tristan. In the 19th
century it was
bought by the
German merchant Otto
Wesendonck in...
- 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...
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numerous songs and
other music. His
orchestration of
Richard Wagner's "
Wesendonck Lieder" is
still the most
commonly performed version. He was also a teacher...
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Rieterpark in Zürich, and
consists of
several historic buildings: the
Wesendonck Villa, the
Remise (or "Depot"), the
Rieter Park-Villa, and the Schönberg...
- (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...
