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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...
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infatuation with the poet-writer
Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of the silk
merchant Otto
Wesendonck.
Wagner met the
Wesendoncks, who were both
great admirers of...
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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...
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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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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...
- Show Me The Way Will Liverman, soloist;
Jonathan King,
pianist Wagner:
Wesendonck Lieder Joyce DiDonato, soloist;
Maxim Emelyanychev,
conductor (Il Pomo...
- a
poetry collection of children's
songs and
rhymes edited by
Mathilde Wesendonck,
which was
published in 1890.
Twelve of her
watercolors for this book...
- 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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Kubrick originally intended to
feature "Im Treibhaus" from Wagner's
Wesendonck Lieder, but the
director eventually replaced it with Ligeti's
piece feeling...
