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Liebestod motif

"Liebestod" ([ˈliːbəsˌtoːt] German for "love death") is the title of the final, dramatic music from the 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner. It is the climactic end of the opera, as Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body.

The music is often used in film and television productions of doomed lovers.^[1]

Partial text

Mild und leise
wie er lächelt,
wie das Auge
hold er öffnet
—seht ihr's, Freunde?
Seht ihr's nicht?
Immer lichter
wie er leuchtet,
stern-umstrahlet
hoch sich hebt?
Seht ihr's nicht?

ertrinken,
versinken, –
unbewusst, –
höchste Lust!

Softly and gently
how he smiles,
how his eyes
fondly open
—do you see, friends?
do you not see?
how he shines
ever brighter.
Star-haloed
rising higher
Do you not see?

[...and ends...]

to drown,
to founder –
unconscious –
utmost bliss!

References

^ "Quoting Tristan: Echoes of Wagner over 150 years of music and film" by Rachel Beaumont, Royal Opera House, 3 December 2014

External links

Act III: Mild und leise wie er lächelt: from Tristan und Isolde, Wagner's autograph manuscript in the Richard Wagner Foundation
"Isolde's Liebestod", act 3, score and transcriptions: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Full text and some performances
"Liebestod", concert performance on YouTube, Birgit Nilsson

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 (1840, 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)

Inventions	Holztrompete Wagner tuba

Bayreuth Festival

Wagner family

Cultural depictions

Wagner Dream (opera)
Wagner (1983 film)
Wagner's Dream (2012 film)
Wahnfried (1986 film)

Film adaptations	Parsifal (1904 film) Parsifal (1982 film)

Named for Wagner

v t e Tristan and Iseult
Characters	Anguish of Ireland Brangaine Iseult Kahedin Mark of Cornwall Meliodas Morholt Tristan
Medieval sources	Thomas of Britain's Tristran Béroul's Tristan Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan Prose Tristan "Cligès" "Chevrefoil" Folie Tristan d'Oxford Sir Tristrem Ystorya Trystan
Later literature	Tristram and Iseult (1852) Tristram of Lyonesse (1882) Tristan (1903) The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall (1923) Finnegans Wake (1939) Tristan and Iseult (1971) Arthur Rex (1978) The Old French Tristan Poems (1980)
Music	Tristan und Isolde (1865, Wagner) Discography Tristan chord "Liebestod" Souvenirs de Munich (ca. 1887) Turangalîla-Symphonie (1949, Messiaen) Tristan (1975, Henze) Qntal III: Tristan und Isolde (2003) "Tristan" (2005)
Film	The Eternal Return (1943) The Woman Next Door (1981) Lovespell (1981) Fire and Sword (1982) In the Shadow of the Raven (1988) Tristan & Isolde (2006)
Art	Tristan Quilt Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels Tristan and Isolde (Egusquiza)

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