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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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    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...
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  • (Philips) Wagner, Wesendonck Lieder and Isoldes Liebestod, London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Colin Davis (Philips) Wagner, Wesendonck Lieder, BBC Symphony...
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    begin work on Tristan. While planning the opera, Wagner composed the Wesendonck Lieder, five songs for voice and piano, setting poems by Mathilde. Two of...
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  • grenadiers (1839-40) 61 Lied Adieux de Marie Stuart (1840) 91 Lied Wesendonck Lieder (1858, third version; 1857-58, second and first version) 92 Lied Es...
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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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    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 tune feeling...
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    Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843) Faust Overture (1844, rev. 1855) Wesendonck Lieder (1858) Siegfried Idyll (1870) Kaisermarsch Writings "Art and Revolution"...
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    however, he set five of Mathilde's poems to music known today as the Wesendonck Lieder. This was an unusual move by Wagner, who almost never set to music...
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