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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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    Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice). He set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck while he was working on his opera Tristan und Isolde. The songs,...
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    as Will and Representation), as well as by Wagner's affair with Mathilde Wesendonck. Widely acknowledged as a pinnacle of the operatic repertoire, Tristan...
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    which 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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    infatuation with the poet-writer Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of the silk merchant Otto Wesendonck. Wagner met the Wesendoncks, who were both great admirers...
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    Peter Gehrig Jedermann Buhlschaft C. Rainer Ecke TV film Wagner Mathilde Wesendonck Tony Palmer TV miniseries 1984 Femmes de personne Cecile Christopher...
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    He further wrote about the project to Mathilde Wesendonck from Venice in 1858, comparing himself and Mathilde to Ananda and Savitri. No musical sketches...
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    Filmed on location in Munich, Cushing played Otto Wesendonck, the husband of poet Mathilde Wesendonck, who in the film is portrayed as having an affair...
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    placed at Wagner's disposal, through the good offices of his wife Mathilde Wesendonck. The composer and his wife Minna had moved into the cottage on 28...
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  • the businessman August Wesendonck and his wife Sophia. One of his brothers was Otto Wesendonck, whose wife Mathilde Wesendonck was a close friend of Richard...
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    Monsarrat) 2015 Mozart in the Jungle Gabrielle (Amazon Prime) 2020 The Zurich Liaison - Wagner's One and Only Love Mathilde Wesendonck (by Jens Neubert)...
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    fantasy of Tannhäuser's fevered brain, as Wagner had written to Mathilde Wesendonck in 1860. Arturo Toscanini conducted the opera at Bayreuth in the...
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    Armin T. Wegner (1886–1978), soldier, medic, human rights activist Mathilde Wesendonck (1828–1902), poet, author, artist, muse of Richard Wagner Typical...
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    Genovena, novel by Alphonse de Lamartine (1860) Genoveva, play by Mathilde Wesendonck (1866) Geneviève de Brabant, stage work by Erik Satie (c. 1900) Golo...
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  • Ronald Pickup as Friedrich Nietzsche Marthe Keller as Mathilde Wesendonck Richard Pasco as Otto Wesendonck [de] Peter Hofmann as Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld...
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  • 84 piano Polka (1853) 85 piano Eine Sonate für das Album von Frau Mathilde Wesendonck (1853) 88 piano Züricher Vielliebchen-Walzer [de] (1854) 93 piano...
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    and distractions, including Wagner's burgeoning friendship with Mathilde Wesendonck, and a lengthy concert tour in London at the invitation of the Royal...
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    medieval epic, also believed to be an idealisation of Wagner's love for Mathilde Wesendonck 96 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg English: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg...
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    his first wife Minna, had an open affair with the married woman Mathilde Wesendonck and had started sleeping with his second wife Cosima while she was...
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  • (d. 1889) 1822 – Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875) 1828 – Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet and author (d. 1902) 1839 – János Murkovics, Slovene-Hungarian...
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    illustrated a poetry collection of children's songs and rhymes edited by Mathilde Wesendonck, which was published in 1890. Twelve of her watercolors for this...
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    Richard Wagner, the novelist Gottfried Keller, and was befriended by Mathilde Wesendonck. He also became friends with the composer Theodor Kirchner, an important...
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  • 1839) August 8 – James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836) August 31 – Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet (b. 1828) September 5 – Rudolf Virchow, German scientist...
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  • Mathilde Wesendonck, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, 1850...
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    resulted in the work being adapted several times. In 1868, author Mathilde Wesendonck published a play Gudrun, which was among her more popular pieces...
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  • Clemente Aguirre, composer and music teacher (d. 1900) December 23 – Mathilde Wesendonck, poet and collaborator of Richard Wagner (d. 1902) January 12 – Peter...
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  • August 31 Grace Hinsdale, American religious writer (born 1832) Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet (born 1828) September 11 – Ernst Dümmler, German historian...
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    Wagner had an affair there with Mathilde Wesendonck and finished in 1858 when he fled from Zurich. In 1871, the Wesendoncks eventually sold the mansion to...
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    mineralogist Charlotte von Lengefeld, writer, wife of Schiller Mathilde Wesendonck, poet, author, and friend of Richard Wagner Ferdinand Zirkel, geologist...
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    Rita Gam ... Cosima Liszt Valentina Cortese ... Mathilde Wesendonck Peter Cushing ... Otto Wesendonck Frederick Valk ... Minister von Moll Gerhard Riedmann...
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