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	Siegfried (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Siegfried is the third of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner.
		Siegfried returns from his wanderings in the forest, demanding to know his parentage, and Mime is forced to explain how he took in Siegfried's mother, Sieglinde, who died giving birth.
		When Siegfried draws his sword from the corpse, his hands are burned by the dragon's blood, and he instinctively puts them to his mouth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siegfried_(opera) (938 words)

	Siegfried Idyll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Siegfried Idyll, one of Richard Wagner's few non-operatic works, is a symphonic poem lasting approximately 14 minutes for chamber orchestra.
		It was first performed on the morning of Christmas day (Cosima's birthday) in 1870 by a small ensemble on the stairs of their villa at Tribschen in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland; Cosima awoke to its opening melody.
		Wagner adapted melodic material for the Idyll from an unfinished chamber piece and later incorporated it into the love scene between Siegfried and Brunhilde in the opera, somewhat disrupting the melodic and motivic unity of the larger work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siegfried_Idyll (305 words)

	2007February (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Siegfried was surely a name close to Wagner's heart, for it was enmeshed in so many enterprises and events of his life.
		It was during this hiatus that the Siegfried Idyll was composed.
		On Christmas morning, Cosima was awakened by the exquisite strains of the Idyll, performed on the stairway to her bedroom by a small orchestra conducted by Wagner himself.
	www.montereysymphony.org /2007February.html (752 words)

	A Siegfried Idyll
		The well-loved Siegfried Idyll, however, was introduced in neither the opera house nor the concert hall, but in the intimate surroundings of Wagner's home.
		Among the 17 musicians assembled on the stairs leading to her bedroom was the illustrious Hans Richter, not as conductor (Wagner himself filled that role) but as performer of the 13 bars assigned to the trumpet.
		While motifs in the Siegfried Idyll relate the work to the eponymous music drama, the dramatic changes in Wagner's personal life during the period in which he completed Die Meistersinger had more to do with the creation of this work in its family context.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2846 (952 words)

	Richard Wagner, Ring of the Nibelung, Siegfried, Ring Cycle
		When the lights are out, Siegfried goes to bed with Brunnhilde and after a mighty struggle, subdues her, at which point Gunther slips in bed to claim his bride, but not before Siegfried (for no apparent reason) takes her golden girdle and ring.
		Siegfried melts the pieces of his father's sword to create a stronger weapon, and with it he kills Fafner and takes the ring and tarnhelm.
		Siegfried's impatience with Mime is demonstrated when he breaks the new sword on the anvil.
	www.homestead.com /larryavisbrown/files/Ring/Ring3_Siegfried.htm (2248 words)

	Richard Wagner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of these, the most commonly performed work is the Siegfried Idyll, a piece for chamber orchestra written for the birthday of his second wife, Cosima.
		After the deaths of Cosima and Siegfried Wagner in 1930, the operation of the Festival fell to Siegfried's widow, English-born Winifred, who was a personal friend of Adolf Hitler.
		For example, Siegfried, the ostensible "hero" of the Ring cycle, may appear (and often does so in modern productions) a shallow and unappealing lout—although this is certainly not how Wagner himself conceived him; the opera's sympathies seem to lie instead with the world-weary womaniser Wotan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Wagner (6856 words)

	Notes on Siegfried Idyll (1870)
		In Siegfried Idyll, Wagner wove together a set of musical references to his love for Cosima and their newborn son Siegfried.
		The Idyll is a labor of love, a sumptuous piece of music that expressed Wagner’s paternal and romantic love in a tender and unforgettable way.
		Originally entitled Tribschen Idyll, the Siegfried Idyll was composed in Tribschen in 1870 as a birthday present for Cosima.
	jsundram.freeshell.org /ProgramNotes/Wagner_Siegfried.html (465 words)

	Siegfried Idyll - Wagner
		The "Siegfried Idyll" was written in 1871 as a birthday gift to the composer’s wife and named for his son, Siegfried, who was born while he was composing the music.
		The thematic material is largely drawn from "Siegfried" in the "Nibelung Trilogy," including the motive from the love scene in the third act, phrases from Wotan’s Farewell and Brünnhilde’s Address.
		The first performance of the Idyll was given upon the steps of Villa Triebscheu at Lucerne, by some Zurich musicians invited for the purpose, Hans Richter among them playing the trumpet, and Wagner himself conducting the serenade to his wife.
	www.musicwithease.com /wagner-siegfried-idyll.html (189 words)

	Mill Hill Worldwide Partnership - Nicaragua - Commemorative Concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Siegfried of the title, in fact, is not only the hero of Wagner's opera, but also his son, who was two at the time of the work's composition, and the piece celebrates Wagner's happiness with his young child and with his wife Cosima.
		The first of these is the tender theme from the final scene of Siegfried, in which Brünnhilde gradually admits her love for the hero.Wagner later told Cosima that he had conceived this melody long before composing the opera, when he first met her in 1864.
		The overall structure of the piece is an 'arch' or 'modified sonata' form, growing in intensity from the gentle beginning to a brief fortissimo climax (the only passage in which the trumpet appears in the work) and then gradually dying away into a series of lullaby-like themes, closing in an atmosphere of peace.
	www.millhill.org.uk /nicaragua/programme.html (1247 words)

	Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra - Program Notes
		The Idyll was written the year following completion of the 3rd Act of Siegfried and uses some of the themes – the famous leitmotiven – that Wagner associated with the title character.
		But the Siegfried for whom it was written was also the composer's infant son, born that same year to Wagner and Cosima von Bülow.
		Pastoral and peaceful, and directly associated with his most intimate life, the Idyll stands alone in the oeuvre of this extremely public man. Despite the melodic links to the opera, the Idyll is not at all programmatic.
	www.laco.org /45programnotes3.html (755 words)

	books about: idylls (siegfried-idyll illustrations replacements) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chris Bohjalian is one such writer, and "Idyll Banter" is a wonderful little book that illuminates an artistic paradox: that the act of sharing what is personal and private...
		George Pratt brings the meaning of war and the emotional scars it leaves on it's victims, the survivors, to life in characters who are generations apart but who suffer from the same endless mental anguish for the rest of their lives.
		IDYLLS AND IDOLS by Will Wolf is a marvelous little gem and should be required reading for any student who is interested in a social science career.
	www.very-clever.com /books/idylls (1360 words)

	Siegfried Idyll
		She has borne me a wonderfully beautiful boy, whom I call boldly Siegfried; he is now growing, together with my work; he gives me a new long life, which at last has attained a meaning.
		Often the Siegfried Idyll is performed with a full complement of strings, instead of the solo string parts Wagner wrote.
		The Siegfried Idyll (Wagner had originally intended calling it Triebschener Idyll, by the way) was never intended by Richard and Cosima to see publication, nor to be heard in public performance; it was an intensely private thing.
	www.bikwil.com /Vintage13/Siegfried-Idyll.html (1488 words)

	The Siegfried Idyll: Jewel of the Wagner Romance
		The Siegfried Idyll was never intended for the public, but it was published when the Wagner's were pressed by debt.
		Thus came to be the "Tribschen Idyll, with Fidi's Bird-song and Orange Sunrise, presented as a Symphonic Birthday Greeting to his Cosima by her Richard, 1870" (Osborne).
		This is synchronous with Siegfried's birth—he was born at four in the morning.
	francisbarnhart.com /projects/siegfried-idyll (4350 words)

	Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
		The late Siegfried Wagner, inheritor of Bayreuth, was born to Richard Wagner and Cosima in 1869.
		In the early morning Wagner heard Cosima's servant, Vreneli, the good angel of the house, cry, "Ein sohn ist da." Siegfried was born while the rising sun turned into a blaze of the color of the orange wall-paper outside Cosima's room, a bird sang, and chiming bells sounded over the Lake of Lucerne.
		This also comes from the love scene in "Siegfried." After considerable development of these ideas, Siegfried's horn-call, the call of the hero who knew not fear, is heard.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles06/sy30.shtml (697 words)

	New York String Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		From its title one would guess that Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll was, like Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, connected to the hero of his mighty Ring tetralogy and perhaps drawn from the third part of that work, itself entitled Siegfried.
		Its original title was Tribschen Idyll (the Siegfried in question was Wagner’s infant son); thereby hangs a tale.
		On June 6, 1869, Cosima bore a son, Siegfried, their third child (two daughters were born to the couple while Cosima was still married to Hans von Bülow).
	www.carnegiehall.org /textSite/box_office/events/evt_4807.html (2449 words)

	TIME.com: -- Jan. 28, 1924 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was to commemorate the birth of this son that Wagner wrote his most blithesome work, Siegfried, the third of the Ring tetralogy.
		On the morning after the child was born, he gathered a band of musicians in his house, surprised and awakened his wife with the sound of the beautiful Siegfried Idyll, which he had arranged from the music of the opera.
		Siegfried Wagner grew to manhood steeped in the Wagnerian tradition, devoted himself to music, to composition and orchestra conducting.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,717504,00.html (741 words)

	Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll - A Good-Music-Guide Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Little Siegfried was the third child of Richard Wagner and Cosima.
		This recording on a 2 CD bargain set combines the Idyll with the best-known of Wagner's orchestral music, including the Preludes from Lohengrin, Parsifal and Tristan and Isolde, Overtures from Tannhäuser and Rieni and Siegfried's Funeral March from Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods).
		The Siegfried Idyll is Wagner at his best, most rapturous, yet Wagner at his least typical.
	www.good-music-guide.com /reviews/048_wagner_siegfried_idyll.htm (688 words)

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		The Tribschen Idyll thus the work is called." Cosima Wagner's description of her most memorable of birthday gifts hints at the place this musical autobiography of their family held in her heart.
		Published as Siegfried Idyll the public assumed that the piece was built on themes from the opera Siegfried.
		The Idyll was written as a love poem, but also in thanksgiving for the birth of their son Siegfried.
	www.andrews.edu /~mack/pnotes/feb0203.html (1125 words)

	NLPVF:: Harry Mulisch: Siegfried: A Black Idyll (Siegfried: een zwarte idylle) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Siegfried, Mulisch harks back to World War II, the period that plays a central role in his works.
		Hitler could neither recognise his son nor marry Eva Braun, as the Führer was supposed to belong to all German women.
		In the novel, reality may outstrip fantasy, but as a novel it is, nevertheless, fantasy that demands the last word.
	www.nlpvf.nl /Book/book.php?Book=175 (615 words)

	Siegfried Idyll - classical music daily anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On Christmas morning in 1870 the Wagner household heard the first performance of the Siegfried Idyll as Wagner's gift to Cosima.
		The musicians assembled on the stairs leading to her bedroom, and Wagner directed the ensemble at the head of the stairs.
		Siegfried at that time was about six months old.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/anniv.cgi?id=1422 (60 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Siegfried Idyll; Rienzi Overture; Faust Overture; Prelude to Die Meistersinger; Prelude to Lohengrin, Act III; Siegfried's Rhine Journey
		The musical world isn't exactly screaming for another disc of Wagner excerpts and overtures, but this is a good one by and large.
		On the deficit side, Maazel takes more than 21 minutes to slog through the Siegfried Idyll, a slender and charming piece that sounds uncomfortable when treated with the portentous heaviness of a Bruckner adagio.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=2412 (185 words)

	Guardian \| Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer - Overture; Siegfried Idyll; Götterdämmerung, etc: RAI Symphony Turin/ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The recording quality may be no better than you would expect from 1952 radio tapes, and the orchestras from Turin and Rome sometimes sound out of their depth, but the conducting on these bleeding chunks of Wagner is nothing short of electrifying.
		They are a mixture of studio and concert performances, products of the same contract with the Italian state broadcaster RAI that led to Wilhelm Furtwängler's legendary Rome Ring cycle.
		The overture to The Flying Dutchman is so dramatic that the rest of the opera would be superfluous; Siegfried's Rhine Journey is given a beguiling lightness, and the Funeral March has a terrifying menace.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4704524-110430,00.html (158 words)

	Siegfried Wagner - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Siegfried Wagner was the son of Richard Wagner and Cosima von Bülow, the daughter of Franz Liszt.
		Siegfried was married to Winifred Williams Klindworth (1897-1980) who was the leader of the Bayreuth festival during the Third Reich.
		Siegfried;: Music drama in three acts, from the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen (G. Schirmer's collection of opera librettos, ed.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/wagner_siegfried (498 words)

	WAGNER Orchestral Works Maazel []: Classical CD Reviews- August 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The only criticism I have of it is that in the company of the other works the effect is relatively muted.
		Siegfried Idyll makes its usual impact, being beautifully played by the Berlin Philharmonic, with the textures glowing in Wagner’s present to his wife on her birthday in 1870.
		In musical terms it portrays Siegfried beginning his journey along the Rhine with Brünnhilde watching and hearing his horn-call after he disappears from sight.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Aug04/Wagner_Maazel.htm (580 words)

	Classical Net Review - Bruckner/Wagner/Strauss - Symphonies #3 & 4/Siegfried Idyll, Overtures/Tod und Verklarung, Don ...
		A similarly taut 'Siegfried Idyll' is the filler to the Bruckner Third.
		Although it would be obviously important to have alternative recordings of these works, especially the Bruckner symphonies, these versions are highly recommended for their heart on sleeve experience that are demonstrations from a bygone era.
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	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/t/tst01339a.html (411 words)

	Pro Arte: Wagner; Siegfried Idyll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Siegfried Idyll is Wagner's most popular orchestral work, and his most intimate.
		Then, when planning the birthday surprise after the birth of his own Siegfried, Wagner naturally enough drew upon music already connected in his own mind with the hero.
		Both Wagner and Cosima felt that this work was something connected to the intimacy of their marriage, so it was with some pain that Wagner, in a time of financial difficulty, sent it off to a publisher in November 1877.
	www.proarte.org /notes/wagner.htm (511 words)

	Anime-Myth.com v. With You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Prince Siegfried is the main character in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" ballet.
		"An excerpt from Siegfried's funeral march in Wagner's 'Twillight of the God's' has been featured in the series since Act 10.
		"'Siegfried Idyll' has been used as a character theme in 'Princess Tutu' since Act 5.
	www.anime-myth.com /tutu_fansubnotes.html (298 words)

	Wagner, Richard, Germany: Composer - Siegfried - Meistersinger - Parsifal
		It was at Tribschen, in 1869, that Wagner first met the young philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who quickly became a firm friend.
		The relationship soured, as Nietzsche became increasingly disillusioned with aspects of Wagner's thought, such as his anti-semitism.
		1870, Wagner performed the Siegfried Idyll at the staircase of his villa as a birthday present for his wife Cosima.
	www.lucerneworldclass.ch /pages/02_wagner.html (144 words)

	Classical Net Review - Wagner - Volume Two
		Only two works here are actually entities unto themselves – Siegfried Idyll and the Faust Overture – with the others being associated with a Wagner opera.
		To point out just a few more highlights, the Meistersinger Prélude comes across with spirit and much color as well, and the gentleness and beauty of the Siegfried Idyll is rendered with such feeling and intelligence by Maazel and the Berliners.
		The verdict on this disc must be that it is one of the finest such issues of Wagner's music in recent years.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/r/rca68717a.html (286 words)

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