Book contents
- Wagner in Context
- Composers in Context
- Wagner in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I Place
- Chapter 1 Paris
- Chapter 2 Dresden
- Chapter 3 Zurich and Lucerne
- Chapter 4 Italy
- Chapter 5 London
- Chapter 6 Bayreuth as City: A Wagnerian Chronology
- Chapter 7 America
- Chapter 8 Spain in the Cosmos of Richard Wagner
- II People
- III Politics, Ideas, and Bodies
- IV Life, Language, and the Ancient World
- V Music and Performance
- VI Reception
- Further Reading
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Zurich and Lucerne
from I - Place
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2024
- Wagner in Context
- Composers in Context
- Wagner in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I Place
- Chapter 1 Paris
- Chapter 2 Dresden
- Chapter 3 Zurich and Lucerne
- Chapter 4 Italy
- Chapter 5 London
- Chapter 6 Bayreuth as City: A Wagnerian Chronology
- Chapter 7 America
- Chapter 8 Spain in the Cosmos of Richard Wagner
- II People
- III Politics, Ideas, and Bodies
- IV Life, Language, and the Ancient World
- V Music and Performance
- VI Reception
- Further Reading
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
After he fled the Dresden Uprising in May 1849, friends helped Wagner to settle in Zurich. He conducted the local orchestra and wrote copious essays about himself and the future of music and drama. Wagner returned to composition in 1853 with his Ring des Nibelungen, but set it aside in 1857 in favour of Tristan und Isolde, inspired by Mathilde Wesendonck, whose husband Otto had provided him with a new home next to their own. But private passion became public knowledge in 1858, forcing Wagner to abandon both Zurich and his marriage. By 1865 he was in Munich, funded by King Ludwig II. But Wagner meddled too much in the affairs of others and had to flee again. He found a new home in Tribschen outside Lucerne, where Cosima von Bülow joined him in 1868. They remained there until April 1872, when they moved to Bayreuth.
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- Wagner in Context , pp. 31 - 39Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024