Siegfried Wagner - Sehnsucht (Longing): Symphonic Poem after Friedrich Schiller (1895)
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Sehnsucht (Longing): Symphonic Poem after Schiller (1895)
An early symphonic poem by German composer Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930), the son of Richard and Cosima Wagner, who studied composition with Engelbert Humperdinck. For over two decades, Siegfried Wagner directed, produced and conducted the Bayreuth Festival, dedicated to the operas of his famous father. While traveling in India and China with his friend Clement Harris, he was inspired to compose the Lisztian tone poem "Sehnsucht" based on a poem by Friedrich Schiller. It premiered in 1895 at the Queen's Hall in London; the work received only one more performance in 1896, and it was not heard again in Siegfried Wagner's lifetime. The score was lost until 1979, when his daughter Friedelind rediscovered it in a storeroom at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
English translation of Schiller's poem:
"Ah, from the bottom of this valley, oppressed by cold mist, could I but find the way out, how happy I should be! There I see a fine rock, ever young, ever green! Had I wings, I would fly to the rocks. I hear music, the sweet sounds of Heaven and the gentle winds bring me the scent of balsam. I see golden fruits, among the dark leaves, and flowers that grow there, never to suffer winter. How beautiful it must be there in eternal sunshine; how refreshing the air on those heights! Yet the raging stream holds me back, angrily rushing on, with great waves that terrify my soul. I see a boat wavering, but ah, the ferryman fails. Again, without foundering, his sails are filled. You must believe, you must venture, for the gods give no pledge: only a miracle can carry you to the land of miracles."
Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert
Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra
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Thanks lot for having the score simultaneously running in the background!!!!
wow at last Siegfried Wagner has a bit more of a youtube presence! Thank you- keep up the good work! :)
Siefried Wagner est un grand compositeur, malheureusement éclipsé par son père Richard. Il faut écouter ses opéras, sa symphonie, pour s'en convaincre.
@laboucheduserpent-
Жыл бұрын
Oui c'est vrai que cette pièce est très bonne à mon avis 🥰
Not having a lot of formal music training, I feel free to evaluate a work on its own merit. In this, I ask dto I like a work. I found to my listening ear, this work to be exceptional. It is now part of my listening repertoire.
Very beatifull connection at the beginning to Richar's Wagner Renunciation of Love motiv, used in Ring of Nibelungs. What a loose that Richard used it only few times during whole 4 Nibelung dramas ...
Franz, Richard and Siegfried, great family.
Musical beauty is truly in the ear of the listener. So many diametrically opposed opinions are in the comments about this video.
Amazing :)
So beautiful-especially 17:09! :)
@frankzhou3529
2 жыл бұрын
Prelude to his Sternengebot, op. 5
This music is really GOOD ! Obviously cannot be better or even equal to that of his father, Richard Wagner . Maybe , If was a work of Gustav Mahler or Richard Straus (pos-romantic composers ) we would have many compliments here .
@GuillaumeB7
2 жыл бұрын
I find that it has a lot of similarity to Hans Rott Symphony no. 1 from 1880. The proto post-romantic. It's less progressive than even Rott though. But that ending is really nice!
I love that he wrote this piece after his first homoerotic encounter. Gives such a nice context to the piece.
"Helferich" did well. He created his own oeuvre. A lot of respect for the underestimated son of a genius (sic).
According to IMSLP it was published at around 1908. So I would assume that it's the manuscript which resurfaced, not the work as a whole.
Reminiscent of passages from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
grandilocuente y vacia de sentimiento por mas que si lo intenta pero languidece
12:50 overture der fliegende holländer
*~17:07
17:08 Prelude to Sternengebot
A truly inspired and moving masterpiece that deserves far wider recognition. Too bad its fame has been obscured by repetition of second-raters like Mahler, Bernstein, Mendelssohn, et al!
@bastianjohannse
10 жыл бұрын
I hope that it is a coincidence, that the supposed "second-raters" are all composers with jewish backround!
@windstorm1000
9 жыл бұрын
bastianjohannse Siegfried was also part jewish through his mother! so much for 'racial superiority'---our lives are up to the individual, not the race.
@Grondorn
8 жыл бұрын
+marc roland Mendelssohn second rate????
@Fritzike
8 жыл бұрын
+marc roland Mendelssohn died in 1847, 20 years before Siegfried was born....give it another try....
@harryandruschak2843
8 жыл бұрын
+bastianjohannse NOT a coincidence :(
Beats me why he thought it a good career choice to become a composer. Not that he was a bad one, but he had a legacy that was impossible to live up to. So why bother and not become a dentist instead?
3rd rate stuff. No one would listen to this without knowing his father.