![]() I was in tears, but so, too, was the whole household R had set up his orchestra on the stairs and thus consecrated our Tribschen forever! The Tribschen Idyll - thus the work is called. When I woke up I heard a sound, it grew even louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music! After it had died away, R came in to me with the five children and put into my hands the score of his Symphonic Birthday Greeting. I shall just tell you, dryly and plainly, what happened. ‘About this day, my children, I can tell you nothing - nothing about my feelings, nothing about my mood, nothing, nothing, nothing. Nietzsche,' wrote Cosima in her diary.Īn imagined image of Nietzsche’s 1869 Christmas with the Wagners (collage by G Henle)Ĭhristmas Day 1870: Wagner composed his Siegfried-Idyll (known by the family as Tribschen Idyll) for Cosima. 'On Christmas Day, Family lunch afterward read Parzival with Prof. It evokes the dialogue of a boy and a fir tree the tragic fate of the Christ Child is foretold.Ĭhristmas 1869: Friedrich Nietzsche had been invited to spend Christmas with Richard and Cosima. On Christmas Eve, he helped set up the puppet theatre, and his gift to Cosima was the dedication of his lecture on Homer (Homer and Classical Philology). This poem has been among the most beautiful German Christmas poems for more than 150 years. ![]() The first song, Der Tannenbaum is a setting of the poem of the same name by Georg Scheurlin (1802 – 1877), published in 1838. He revised the songs, prepared a new manuscript and bound the book himself one song in German and three in French (Cosima’s native tongue). He selected four of the 'ancient' lieder and arranged them in an exact dramatic sequence: Christmas, the boy, expectation, snow. The two women he loved most, Mathilde Wesendonck and Cosima von Bülow, both were born around Christmas, on 23 and 24 December respectively, and used to celebrate their birthdays on 25 December together with Christmas.Ģ5 December (Christmas Day) 1830: The first premiere of a piece by Wagner - the lost Paukenschlagouverture in B-Flat major, WWV 10.Ĭhristmas Day 1830: The Overture in D minor, WWV 20 was first performed.Ĭhristmas Day 1857: Wagner’s Träume was for Mathilde Wesendonck (the piece itself had already been completed on 5 December.) However, Wagner wrote a second version for Christmas, scored for violin and chamber ensemble.Ĭhristmas Day 1868: Wagner prepared a surprise Birthday-Christmas present for pregnant Cosima, Four White Songs. ![]() Stepping away from the holiday shopping, the midtown Manhattan window decorations, and the gingerbread cookies and hot cocoa, this gem of a book is introduced and curated by Emma Thompson and Greg Wise and celebrates the importance of kindness and generosity, acceptance and tolerance - and shows us that these values are not just for Christmas, but for every day of the year.Christmas always played an important role in Richard Wagner’s life. This is a beautiful, funny and soulful collection of personal essays about the meaning of Christmas, written by an exceptional body of voices from the boulevards of Hollywood to the soup kitchens of Covent Garden. ![]() The perfect holiday book, featuring the remembrances of Meryl Streep, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran, and more, to coincide with the upcoming movie LAST CHRISTMAS, starring Emma Thompson, Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding. When you think back to Christmases past, what made it magical? Looking towards the future, what would your perfect Christmas be? What would you change? What should we all change?
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |