Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... VII. "TRISTAN UND ISOLDE." Idea and experience. The poem's evolution. The experience.--Composition of act i and three of the Fiinf Gedichte.--Paris episode: correspondence with Praeger; French copyrights; Rienzi and Tannhauser traffic; Ollivier; the Erard.--Return: Tristan contract; full-scoring of act i.--Munich gives Lohengrin.--Stehe still! Villa concert. Good Friday and Parsifal.--Minna's scene and 'cure.'--Im Treibhaus. Composition of act ii. Relations with, the Villa.--More Asyl guests. Minna's return; fresh scenes. Farewell.--At Geneva while Vienna gives Lohengrin.--Venice: instrumenting act ii; poem published; finance again.--Berlin gives Lohengrin.--Political persecution; act ii completed and Venice left.--Lucerne and Wiedersehen; act Hi composed and finished. "For my having written the Tristan I thanh you from my deepest soul to all eternity." To Mathilde Wesendonck. "With my 'Tristan' I confidently plunged into the depths of inner soul-events, and from out this mid arcanum of the world built up its outer form... Here life and death, the whole import and existence of the outer world, depend on nothing but the inner motion of the soul." "The poet sees before experiencing, and sees what gives its sense to all experience itself... But what if the very essence of the poet's vision at last should pass into his own experience! Then his preconceived Idea will take great part in this Experience's shaping: the purer and the loftier that, the more unworldlike and incomparable this; it will refine his will, his aesthetic interest will become an ethical, and hand in hand with the highest poetic idea will go the highest moral consciousness. Prose Worhs III. 330-1, "Zukunftsmusik," written a twelvemonth after completion of the Tristan...