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The Secret of Tristan and Isolde

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2007

Bryan Magee
Affiliation:
Keble College, Oxford

Extract

In his autobiography, Mein Leben, Wagner tells us that it was partly his reading of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung), and the need to give ‘rapturous expression’ to the ‘frame of mind produced’ by that reading, that gave him the initial conception of Tristan and Isolde.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2007

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