Wagner Siegfried Idyll (1, 2); Solti
Wilhelm Richard Wagner Sir Georg Solti Vienna Philharmonic Wagner wrote this tender composition for chamber orchestra as a birthday gift to his second wife, Cosima, who was the daughter of the famous Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. It was composed around the time when he was nearing the completion of the score for his music drama Siegfriedone of the four operas in his operatic cycle The Ringand after the birth of their first son together, Siegfried. The premier of Siegfried Idyll took
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