Tribschen
Tribschen is a small headland in Lake Lucerne with a country house on the edge of Lucerne (Langensand district). Today the country house houses the Richard Wagner Museum.
history
The manor house was built in the late Middle Ages and was first inhabited by the "Herren zu Tripschen". In the 18th century it was acquired by the Lucerne patrician family "am Rhyn" and rebuilt in its present form. Colonel Walter Ludwig am Rhyn- Schumacher rented the country estate to Richard Wagner from 1866 to 1872. In honor of the Rhyn, he was awarded a diploma that gave the master the right to bear the coat of arms of the now extinct Tribschen family. Wagner had it installed in the Wahnfried house . In 1931, the city of Lucerne acquired the building with the 30,000 m² park. The museum was founded two years later.
In 1938, the Lucerne Music Festival began in front of the house under the direction of Arturo Toscanini . In front of an audience of 1200, the program included the Siegfried Idyll , which Wagner had composed in Tribschen. Also in the commemorative year 1983 (Wagner died in 1883) a matinee with works and texts by Richard Wagner took place in the presence of the Wagner granddaughters.
Wagner's asylum
After unsteady years of travel, the cube-shaped house became Richard Wagner's “asylum” in 1866 , where he initially came to rest. He lived in Tribschen together with Cosima and her children for six years. Here he completed the composition of the Mastersingers of Nuremberg and continued to work on his Ring des Nibelungen . The daughter of the owner of the country house, Angelique am Rhyn, gives an insight into the life of Wagner in her “Memories” and draws an amusing picture of the “tenant” in Tribschen:
“Wagner stood in front of my father in his usual house suit: small in stature, intelligent, agile, with expressive blue eyes, heavily nasal and using the Saxon dialect, which sounded extremely funny to my Swiss ears. He wore buckled shoes, light-colored silk stockings, and breeches; an embroidered brocade vest with a lace jabot hung loosely around his shoulders, and a black velvet beret covered his prominent head. At his side sat Cosima, the tall, graceful, slender woman in a white embroidered tulle dress. Her full dark blonde hair fell over her shoulders; her beautiful smile and the blue, sweet, often dreamy eyes won her hearts by storm. The 'gentleman', as he was usually called by the people of Lucerne, was often in financial embarrassment and was rarely able to pay the rent for Tribschen on time. If he remained in default for too long, it could happen that my father went to his apartment himself to inquire carefully about the state of Wagner's finances. Whenever the composer was in a good mood, he entertained his 'feudal lord' - as he called my father - princely in order to comfort him about the outstanding rent. But if the lack of money was too much pressure, Wagner did not show himself and simply sent a message that he was not going to hold an 'office hour' now. Gifted with great acting talent, he was often able to entertain a company he liked for hours with witty and witty conversations, but seldom tolerated contradiction. To reinforce his remarks, which were always clear and rich in images, even in a foreign language, he sometimes performed memorable, almost rhythmic movements with his hands, arms or the whole body, which often increased to the most daring leaps. "
Friedrich Nietzsche in Tribschen
After being appointed professor in Basel , the young Friedrich Nietzsche came to Tribschen for the first time on May 17, 1869 and became friends with the Wagners. For this early Nietzsche, Wagner was an “image” of the great Aeschylus . Nietzsche wrote to his friend Erwin Rohde :
“[…] I have found a person who, like no other, reveals to me the image of what Schopenhauer calls 'genius' and who is completely permeated by that wondrous, intimate philosophy. This is none other than Richard Wagner, about whom you must not believe any judgment found in the press, in the writings of music scholars, etc. Nobody knows it and can judge it because the whole world is on a different foundation and is not at home in its atmosphere. In him there is such unconditional ideality, such a deep and touching humanity, such a sublime seriousness of life that I feel close to him as if close to the divine. "
Nietzsche visited the Wagners more than 20 times in Tribschen, lived in his own guest room and probably fell in love with Cosima, whom he later referred to as his "secretly loved Ariadne". Later, when he reported in various writings (e.g. Nietzsche versus Wagner ), he described his time in Tribschen as the happiest of all.
Siegfried idyll
Wagner's children Eva and Siegfried were born in Tribschen . For Cosima's 33rd birthday, Wagner secretly wrote the Siegfried Idyll in memory of the birth of his only son and had it performed on December 25, 1870 in Tribschen with a small chamber orchestra (including Richter , Ruhoff, Rauchenecker and Kahl). Cosima noted in her diary:
“When I woke up, my ear heard a sound, it swelled more and more, I was no longer allowed to imagine myself in a dream, music rang out, and what music! When it died away, R. came in with the five children and handed me the score of the 'Symphonic Birthday Greeting', I was in tears, but so was the whole house. R. placed his orchestra on the stairs and thus consecrated our tribschen for ever! The 'Tribscher Idylle' is the name of the work. […] After breakfast, the orchestra returned to normal, and the idyll resounded in the apartment below, to the shock of all of us; then Lohengrin's bridal procession, Beethoven's septet, and finally again the one never heard enough! Now I understood R.'s secret work, now also of the good Richter's trumpet (he splattered the Siegfried theme and had learned the trumpet especially for it). "
literature
- Cosima Wagner: The diaries . Munich 1976
- Friedrich Nietzsche: All writings . Edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. Berlin 1967 and 1988
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ From the memories of Richard Wagner's stay in Tribschen by Angelique am Rhyn. Wagner Museum Tribschen, Lucerne 1983
Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 28 " N , 8 ° 19 ′ 41" E ; CH1903: six hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred / 210399