Dear friends of piano music,who would have thought that Wagner composed an album sheet for piano? My father-in-law made me aware of this wonderful piece, he said that it already contained “the whole Wagner”.
This is undoubtedly true for music. But if you consider that Wagner's total work of art („Gesamtkunstwerk“) also includes the libretti written by the composer, it is, if you will, half the Wagner. And, to be honest, that's one of the reasons I like this piece so much: it doesn't have a libretto! I have little to gain from the archaic stories in Wagner operas. They deal with adultery (like all authors, Wagner likes to write on subjects with which he is very familiar ...), murder and homicide, revenge, passionate passion, and in the end always someone dies. This is of course a matter of taste, but we don't have to argue about it, because, as already mentioned, an album page has no libretto, thank goodness!
Kind regards from Heidelberg!
Kerstin
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