. A guide to Parsifal, the music drama of Richard Wagner; its origin, story, and music. ommon,but there is nothing of the passionate eloquence,the dramatic intensity, of the Lohengrin pre-lude in that of Parsifal. The difference, it hasbeen observed, resides in the more epic treatmentthat fills the prelude to Parsifal with a con-templative calm, as well as in the more solemnsubject of the drama. Wagner has explained the fundamental ideasof this prelude in a brief analytical note that heprepared for a private performance of it beforeKing Ludwig 11., at Munich, in 1880. It is as follows: ^ Love
. A guide to Parsifal, the music drama of Richard Wagner; its origin, story, and music. ommon,but there is nothing of the passionate eloquence,the dramatic intensity, of the Lohengrin pre-lude in that of Parsifal. The difference, it hasbeen observed, resides in the more epic treatmentthat fills the prelude to Parsifal with a con-templative calm, as well as in the more solemnsubject of the drama. Wagner has explained the fundamental ideasof this prelude in a brief analytical note that heprepared for a private performance of it beforeKing Ludwig 11., at Munich, in 1880. It is as follows: ^ Love — Faith — Hope ? First theme: Love. Take ye my body, take my blood, in token of ourlove! (Repeated in faint whispers by angel-voices.)Take ye my blood, my body take, in memory of me!(Again repeated in whispers.) Second theme: Faith. Promise of redemption through faith. Firmly andstoutly faith declares itself, exalted, wilHng even in the promise renewed Faith answers from the dimmest ^ Richard Wagners Prose Works, translated by William AshtonEllis, vol. VIIL, p.
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