Wagner and his Isolde . d become her and herage. All in vain! She persists in the mosttrivial misrepresentations, declares herself in-sulted, and, while calmer at times, againbreaks out into rage as before. Last month,Minna having returned because we had visi-tors, it was necessary to reach some was impossible that these two women couldcontinue living so near together, for , on her side, could not forget thatthe great sacrifices she had made for me andthe delicate regard she had shown me had beenrepaid by me, through my wife, with a grossinsult. WESENDONK JEALOUS The g
Wagner and his Isolde . d become her and herage. All in vain! She persists in the mosttrivial misrepresentations, declares herself in-sulted, and, while calmer at times, againbreaks out into rage as before. Last month,Minna having returned because we had visi-tors, it was necessary to reach some was impossible that these two women couldcontinue living so near together, for , on her side, could not forget thatthe great sacrifices she had made for me andthe delicate regard she had shown me had beenrepaid by me, through my wife, with a grossinsult. WESENDONK JEALOUS The guests to whom Wagner refers in thisletter were, oddly enough, the Von Billows,Hans and Cosima, the latter Liszts daughter,who, some years later, left her husband, casther lot with Wagner, and eventually becamethe power behind the throne at were witnesses of some of the violentscenes which disrupted the Wagner house-hold, but there is nothing in Von Billowsletters to indicate that he appreciated the real 58. Otto AVesendoxk 1860 From a photograph taken in Rome TRISTAN IN REAL LIFE • ? • cause of the composers leaving Zurich and ofhis separation from Minna. Interesting as is the letter from Wagner tohis sister as it stands in the German edition ofthe Wagner-Wesendonk book, the editor has,with too evident purpose, omitted several sig-nificant passages, in which Wagner refers toincreasing jealousy on the part of Wesen-donk, with whom it finally became a ques-tion of preserving the mother of his children,who, Wagner adds, were unconscious obsta-cles between Mathilde and himself. Theoutcome seems to prove that Otto managedthe affair with infinite tact. Instead of spoil-ing matters by ill-timed displays of temper,he awaited the right moment and then sentWagner flying, apparently with Mathildesconsent. The woman who appears to herlover like an angel whose God has desertedher, is apt to be grateful when she discoversthat her husband hasnt. FLIGHT Wagners departure from
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