Wesendonck Lieder
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Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91, is the common name of a set of five songs for female voice and piano by Richard Wagner, Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice). He set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck while he was working on his opera Tristan und Isolde. The songs, together with the Siegfried Idyll, are the two non-operatic works by Wagner most regularly performed.
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Wesendonck Lieder | |
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Lieder by Richard Wagner | |
Catalogue | WWV 91 |
Text | Poems by Mathilde Wesendonck |
Language | German |
Composed | 1857 (1857)–1858 |
Scoring | voice and piano |
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