Richard Wagner The Siegfried Idyll

摘要

Composers as contrasted as Elgar and Bartok, Schumann and Shostakovich, Mahler and Beethoven have concealed, or made explicit references in their music to women they adored. Richard Wagner's 'song of thanksgiving, with a profound regard for the bonds of human affection' [Richard Osborne], was first heard on Christmas morning in 1870, played by a small group clustered in the stairway of his house near Lake Lucerne.