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| type = Song cycle | composer = Richard Wagner | image = File:Mathilde1850.jpg | alt = | caption = Portrait of Mathilde Wesendonck (1850) by Karl Ferdinand Sohn | Title_English = Wesendonck Songs | catalogue = WWV 91 | text = Poems by Mathilde Wesendonck | language = German | composed = –1858 | scoring = voice and piano }} ', WWV 91,〔A note on the spelling: Otto and Mathilde used the spelling "Wesendonck". Their son called himself Franz von Wesendonk—there were several German spelling reforms at the end of the 19th century. The forms "Wesendonck" and "Wesendonk" are found in roughly equal proportion in Wagner literature.〕 is a song cycle by Richard Wagner. He composed the setting of five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, with titles translating as "The Angel", "Stand still!", "In the Greenhouse", "Sorrows" and "Dreams", 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. The ' were published under the German title '〔Five poems by Mathilde Wesendonk for a female voice and piano〕 in 1857 and 1858 by C. F. Peters. == History == The cycle is a setting of poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of one of Richard Wagner's patrons. Wagner had become acquainted with Otto Wesendonck in Zurich, where he had fled on his escape from Saxony after the May Uprising in Dresden in 1849. For a time Wagner and his wife Minna lived together in the ' (German for ''Asylum'' in the sense of "sanctuary"), a small cottage on the Wesendonck estate. It is sometimes claimed that Wagner and Mathilde had a love affair; in any case, the situation and mutual infatuation certainly contributed to the intensity in the conception of ''Tristan und Isolde''; there was also certainly an influence on Mathilde's poems. The poems themselves are in a wistful, pathos-laden style influenced by Wilhelm Müller, the author of the poems used by Schubert earlier in the century. But the language is more rarefied and intense as the Romantic style had developed by that time. 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「Wesendonck Lieder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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