Liebestod
Musical composition by Richard Wagner
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"Liebestod" ([ˈliːbəsˌtoːt] German for 'love death') is the title often given to the final, dramatic music or aria from the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner. It is the climactic end of the 1859 completed / 1865 premiered opera, as Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body.
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In actual fact Wagner called the prelude the "Liebestod" (Love-death) while this final piece he entitled the "Verklärung" (Transfiguration). The confusion in title comes from an 1867 transcription his father-in-law Franz Liszt made which he called "Liebestod" (S.447); he prefaced his score with a four-bar motto from the love duet from act 2, which in the opera is sung to the words "sehnend verlangter Liebestod". Liszt's transcription became well known throughout Europe well before Wagner's opera reached most places, and it is Liszt's title for the final scene that persists. The transcription was revised in 1875.[1]
The music is often used in film and television productions of doomed lovers.[2]
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Mild und leise |
Softly and gently |
