wagner wrote tristan und isolde while in the midst of an affair with the wife of his friend and patron
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he actually read a draft of the finished libretto to an audience including his wife, his mistress, and his future mistress, who was also married
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The tangle of personal and professional relationships among Wagner, Liszt, von Bulow and Cosima is also rather amazing
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Pictures 1-3: Wagner to Liszt
Picture 4: A cartoon from 1876.
Though a complicated one, Wagner and Liszt were in an intense relationship that lasted from 1848-1883.pic.twitter.com/nj0VvpfiR9
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(You're probably aware, but the thought of Berlioz was in reference to his "Romeo et Juliette". It made a huge effect on Wagner when he first heard it, echoes of it can be heard in Tristan, and Wagner inscribed a copy of the T&I score to Berlioz)
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jAs, buT, Tristan Und Isolde IST SUPERIOR.
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