Tribschen

Place in Lucerne, Switzerland

Tribschen
Country	Switzerland
City	Lucerne
Canton	Lucerne

Tribschen (also seen as Triebschen) is a district of the city of Lucerne, in the Canton of Lucerne in central Switzerland.

Tribschen is best known today as the home of the German composer Richard Wagner from 30 March 1866 to 22 April 1872. When Wagner was obliged to leave Munich in March 1866, he moved to a spacious villa in Tribschen on a headland projecting into Lake Lucerne. It was while he was living here that Wagner completed the score of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, composed his "Emperor March" and the third act of Siegfried, and began Götterdämmerung.

It was also at Tribschen that he composed his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday gift to his second wife, Cosima, who had recently given birth to the couple's first legitimate child, a son named Siegfried. The couple had had two children while Cosima was married to conductor Hans von Bülow. The Siegfried Idyll was performed for the first time on Christmas morning, 25 December 1870, by an ensemble of fifteen players (among them Richter, Ruhoff, Rauchenecker and Kahl) on the stairs of the villa. It was a birthday present for Cosima; she had turned 33 the previous day, 24 December, but she always celebrated her birthday on Christmas Day. One of the guests present at this performance was the newly appointed 24-year-old professor of classical philology at the University of Basel, Friedrich Nietzsche.^[1]

Today the villa is the Richard Wagner Museum.^[2]

References

^ Raymond Geuss, "Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy" in Introductions to Nietzsche, Ed. Robert Pippin. Cambridge UP, 2012, p.44
^ "Startseite". Richard Wagner Museum. Retrieved 2018-03-26.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tribschen.

47°02′28.27″N 8°19′41.33″E / 47.0411861°N 8.3281472°E / 47.0411861; 8.3281472

Richard Wagner

Complete operas

Early works	Die Feen Das Liebesverbot Rienzi

Romantic operas	Der fliegende Holländer Tannhäuser Lohengrin

Music dramas

Der Ring des Nibelungen	Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung

Non-operatic music

Symphony in C major (1832)

Polonia Overture (1836)

Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843)

Faust Overture (1844, rev. 1855)

Wesendonck Lieder (1858)

Siegfried Idyll (1870)

Kaisermarsch

Writings

"Art and Revolution"
"The Artwork of the Future"
"Autobiographic Sketch"
"A Communication to My Friends"
"Das Judenthum in der Musik (Jewishness in Music)"
Leubald
Mein Leben
"Music of the Future"
Opera and Drama

Other opera

Opera excerpts	"Bridal Chorus" "Ride of the Valkyries" "Liebestod"

Unfinished operas	Die Laune des Verliebten (1830) Die Hochzeit (1832) Männerlist größer als Frauenlist (1838) Wieland der Schmied (1850; text only) Die Sieger (1858; text only)