FOOTNOTES:[181]Without opus number.[182]The first performance of the overture in its original form was in Dresden, July 22, 1844, at a concert in the pavilion of theGrosser Garten.[183]By Mr. Charles T. Brooks.[184]These passages from the Wagner-Liszt correspondence are from the English version by Francis Hueffer.[185]Without opus number.[186]Cosima married von Bülow in Berlin, August 18, 1857; they were divorced in the autumn of 1869.[187]From Finck'sWagner and His Works.[188]These motives are: (1) The "Peace" motive, from the love scene in the third act, first heard atBrünnhilde'swords:Ewig wär ich, ewig bin ich, ewig in süss sehnender Wonne—doch ewig zu deinem Heil!("I have been forever, I am forever, ever in sweet yearning rapture—but ever to thy salvation!"); (2) a portion of the "Slumber" motive (first heard in "Die Walküre"); (3) a theme of two descending notes taken fromBrünnhilde'scry (in the love scene):O Siegfried! Siegfried! sieh' meine Angst!("O Siegfried, Siegfried, behold my terror!"); (4) the "Treasure of the World" motive, accompanyingBrünnhilde'sapostrophe:O Siegfried, Herrlicher! Hort der Welt!("O Siegfried, glorious one! Treasure of the world!"); (5) Siegfried's "Wander" motive, first heard in Act I., where the son of Siegmund exuberantly announces to Mime that he is going forth into the world, never to return; (6) fragments of the bird-call from theWaldwebenin the second act; and (7) the figure which accompanies Siegfried's ecstatic words near the climax of the love scene:Ein herrlich Gewässer wogt vor mir("a wondrous sea surges before me").
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[181]Without opus number.
[181]Without opus number.
[182]The first performance of the overture in its original form was in Dresden, July 22, 1844, at a concert in the pavilion of theGrosser Garten.
[182]The first performance of the overture in its original form was in Dresden, July 22, 1844, at a concert in the pavilion of theGrosser Garten.
[183]By Mr. Charles T. Brooks.
[183]By Mr. Charles T. Brooks.
[184]These passages from the Wagner-Liszt correspondence are from the English version by Francis Hueffer.
[184]These passages from the Wagner-Liszt correspondence are from the English version by Francis Hueffer.
[185]Without opus number.
[185]Without opus number.
[186]Cosima married von Bülow in Berlin, August 18, 1857; they were divorced in the autumn of 1869.
[186]Cosima married von Bülow in Berlin, August 18, 1857; they were divorced in the autumn of 1869.
[187]From Finck'sWagner and His Works.
[187]From Finck'sWagner and His Works.
[188]These motives are: (1) The "Peace" motive, from the love scene in the third act, first heard atBrünnhilde'swords:Ewig wär ich, ewig bin ich, ewig in süss sehnender Wonne—doch ewig zu deinem Heil!("I have been forever, I am forever, ever in sweet yearning rapture—but ever to thy salvation!"); (2) a portion of the "Slumber" motive (first heard in "Die Walküre"); (3) a theme of two descending notes taken fromBrünnhilde'scry (in the love scene):O Siegfried! Siegfried! sieh' meine Angst!("O Siegfried, Siegfried, behold my terror!"); (4) the "Treasure of the World" motive, accompanyingBrünnhilde'sapostrophe:O Siegfried, Herrlicher! Hort der Welt!("O Siegfried, glorious one! Treasure of the world!"); (5) Siegfried's "Wander" motive, first heard in Act I., where the son of Siegmund exuberantly announces to Mime that he is going forth into the world, never to return; (6) fragments of the bird-call from theWaldwebenin the second act; and (7) the figure which accompanies Siegfried's ecstatic words near the climax of the love scene:Ein herrlich Gewässer wogt vor mir("a wondrous sea surges before me").
[188]These motives are: (1) The "Peace" motive, from the love scene in the third act, first heard atBrünnhilde'swords:Ewig wär ich, ewig bin ich, ewig in süss sehnender Wonne—doch ewig zu deinem Heil!("I have been forever, I am forever, ever in sweet yearning rapture—but ever to thy salvation!"); (2) a portion of the "Slumber" motive (first heard in "Die Walküre"); (3) a theme of two descending notes taken fromBrünnhilde'scry (in the love scene):O Siegfried! Siegfried! sieh' meine Angst!("O Siegfried, Siegfried, behold my terror!"); (4) the "Treasure of the World" motive, accompanyingBrünnhilde'sapostrophe:O Siegfried, Herrlicher! Hort der Welt!("O Siegfried, glorious one! Treasure of the world!"); (5) Siegfried's "Wander" motive, first heard in Act I., where the son of Siegmund exuberantly announces to Mime that he is going forth into the world, never to return; (6) fragments of the bird-call from theWaldwebenin the second act; and (7) the figure which accompanies Siegfried's ecstatic words near the climax of the love scene:Ein herrlich Gewässer wogt vor mir("a wondrous sea surges before me").