. Programme. the HolySupper, the spear, the Grail harmonies, the complaint of the FlowerGirls, which are all finally absorbed in the Good Friday melody. Thispastoral is interrupted suddenly by the sound of distant bells. Wagners head was full of Tarsifal in the fifties. At work on Tris-tan he thought of introducing Parsifal in the third act. In 1857 hecomposed, or at least sketched, the Good Friday Spell. Whenliving near Zurich, he was inspired by beautiful spring weather, and onGood Friday he remembered the story of Parsifal and the story toldby Chretien de Troies and Wolfram von Eschenbach,
. Programme. the HolySupper, the spear, the Grail harmonies, the complaint of the FlowerGirls, which are all finally absorbed in the Good Friday melody. Thispastoral is interrupted suddenly by the sound of distant bells. Wagners head was full of Tarsifal in the fifties. At work on Tris-tan he thought of introducing Parsifal in the third act. In 1857 hecomposed, or at least sketched, the Good Friday Spell. Whenliving near Zurich, he was inspired by beautiful spring weather, and onGood Friday he remembered the story of Parsifal and the story toldby Chretien de Troies and Wolfram von Eschenbach, of the knightmeeting the pilgrims on Good Friday. In Wolframs poem, probablydictated in the early years of the thirteenth century and pubhshed in1477, Parsifal meets an old knight and his wife tramping barefootedthrough the snow, on a pilgrimage to a hermits dwelhng. They rebukehim for not remembering the day:— Knowest thou not the day, sweet youth?Tis Holy Friday, in good sooth,When all bewail their GOWNS, SUITSandHATS 277 Dartmouth Street, Boston Summer Branch at Magnolia jACo: VIOLIN MAKERS AND REPAIRERS to the Boston Symphony Orchestra 47 WINTER STREET BOSTON. MASS.
Size: 2199px × 1137px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbostonsy, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookyear1881
