Project 366 - Listener Guide #206




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Summary: "Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde Act 3" The re-discovery of mediaeval Germanic poetry, including Gottfried von Strassburg's version of Tristan, the Nibelungenlied and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, left a large impact on the German Romantic movements during the mid-19th century. Again, we note here subject matter that Wagner has mined to form the core of his epic operas. Tristan took five years to compose with the bulk of the work between 1857 and 1859. Sections of the opera and libretto were composed in Switzerland and Italy. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/wagner_tristan_je_51_muss_i_etc [First time on our podcasting channel]