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The ', WWV 103, by Richard Wagner is a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra. ==Background== Wagner composed the ''Siegfried Idyll'' as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first performed on Christmas morning, 25 December 1870,〔Cosima's actual birthday was 24 December, but she always celebrated it on Christmas Day〕 by a small ensemble of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich on the stairs of their villa at Tribschen (today part of Lucerne), Switzerland. Cosima awoke to its opening melody. Conductor Hans Richter played the brief trumpet part in that private performance. The original title was ''Triebschen Idyll with Fidi's birdsong and the orange sunrise, as symphonic birthday greeting. Presented to his Cosima by her Richard.'' "Fidi" was the family's nickname for their son Siegfried. It is thought that the birdsong and the sunrise refer to incidents of personal significance to the couple. Wagner's opera ''Siegfried'', which was premiered in 1876, incorporates music from the ''Idyll''. Wagner adapted the material from an unfinished chamber piece into the ''Idyll'' before giving the theme to Brunhilde in the opera's final scene. The work also uses a German lullaby, "", played by solo oboe. Ernest Newman discovered it was linked to the Wagners' older daughter Eva. This and other musical references, whose meaning remained unknown to the outside world for many years, reveal the idyll's levels of personal significance for both Wagner and Cosima. Wagner originally intended the ''Siegfried Idyll'' to remain a private piece.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll )〕 However, due to financial pressures, he decided to sell the score to publisher B. Schott in 1878.〔 In doing so, Wagner expanded the orchestration to 35 players to make the piece more marketable.〔 The original piece is scored for a small chamber orchestra of 13 players: flute, oboe, two clarinets, bassoon, two horns, trumpet, two violins, viola, cello and double bass. The trumpet part is very brief, lasting only 13 measures. The piece is commonly played today by orchestras with more than one player on each string part. Modern performances are much slower than those of earlier years.〔Brown, Jonathan (2012). ''Great Wagner Conductors – a listener's companion''. O'Connor, A.C.T.: Parrot Press, pp. 769–770 (a list of timings from Hans Richter, 14′ 30″, to Hans Knappertsbusch, 20′ 36″) ISBN 978-0-9871556-0-3〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Siegfried Idyll」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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