Wagner and His Music Dramas / The New York Philharmonic Symphony Society Presents...

Author:Robert Bagar [Bagar, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

Excerpts from “Die Meistersinger”

Often heard in the concert hall are several other excerpts from Die Meistersinger. These include the Procession of the Guilds, the Dance of the Apprentices, the Procession of the Masters, the Homage to Sachs, and the Finale.

Prelude, Transformation Scene and Grail Scene from Act 1 of “Parsifal”

Most of the Ring, all of Tristan, and a considerable portion of Die Meistersinger had been written by Wagner before he started actual work on the “consecrational festival stage play,” Parsifal, in 1865. He made a first outline of the libretto in August of that year, some two decades after he had become acquainted with the Parsifal poem of Wolfram von Eschenbach, the Minnesinger. Not till 1877, however, did the text attain its final shape, and it was published in December. Sometime previously Wagner had turned to the task of composing the music and completed it in 1879. The orchestration was finished in January 1882. The opera was given for the first time at Bayreuth on July 26, 1882. The Prelude, written in December 1878, had been given its première performance at Wagner’s house, Wahnfried, on Christmas Day, with the composer conducting for the occasion, his wife Cosima’s birthday.

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