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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 of Richard Wagner 's Wesendonck Lieder; the composer was infatuated with her, and his wife Minna blamed Mathilde for the break-up of their marriage.
MATHILDE WESENDONCK. & RICHARD WAGNER. The most important places concerning Wagner in Zurich are the Hotel Baur Au Lac and the Villa Wesendonck. This is where Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck met. The story of a great undying love that started in Zurich and lasted till the composer’s death.
Wagner gained a certain amount of inspiration from his brief 'affair' with Mathilde Wesendonck, who was married to silk merchant Otto Wesendonck. Even though Mathilde wasn't too keen on Wagner, he still wrote adoring letters to her - one of which was intercepted by his partner at the time, Minna Planer.
Mathilde Wesendonk – A New Love. The love and hate relationship which Wagner and Minna enjoyed if that phrase can be used in this context, really reached a crisis point due to Wagner’s relationship with the second real love of his life: Mathilde Wesendonk (below right).
Wagner responded, practically from the start of their acquaintance, by falling head-over-heels in love with Otto's attractive wife, Mathilde Wesendonck, who seems to have reciprocated with...
Nov 28, 2021 · Richard Wagner: 5 Wesendonck Lieder, originally for female voice and piano, WWV 91 (texts: Mathilde Wesendonck; 1857-1858; orchestration: Hans Werner Henze, 1976) ...more.
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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 (Five Poems for a Female Voice). He set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck while he was working on his opera Tristan und Isolde.
