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WAGNER – Traume (Studie zu Tristan und Isolde) – CELLO and PIANO

Other Identification:
Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91, is the common name of a set of five songs for female voice and piano by Richard Wagner, Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice). He set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck while he was working on his opera Tristan und Isolde. The songs, together with the Siegfried Idyll, are the two non-operatic works by Wagner most regularly performed.

Movements or sections:
No name was given for the author of the texts at the first publication; it was not publicly revealed until after Mathilde’s death (1902). The present order of the songs appears for the first time in the published version, and this has raised doubts as to whether the sequence is a genuine song cycle, or should be regarded simply as a collection of individual pieces:
“Der Engel” (“The Angel”), composed November 1857
“Stehe still!” (“Be still!”), composed February 1858
“Im Treibhaus – Studie zu Tristan und Isolde” (“In the Greenhouse”), composed May 1858
“Schmerzen” (“Sorrows”), composed December 1857
“Träume – Studie zu Tristan und Isolde” (“Dreams”), composed December 1857

As one can see, Wagner himself called two of the songs “studies” for Tristan und Isolde, using for the first time certain musical ideas that are later developed in the opera. In “Träume” one can hear the roots of the love duet in Act 2, while “Im Treibhaus” (the last of the five to be composed) uses music later developed extensively for the prelude to Act 3.

Instrumentation:
DUO OF CELLO AND PIANO, prepared by David Johnstone from Leopold Auer’s violin version.
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2 PDFs, one for each part.

Approximate difficulty:
Quite difficult.
Some male singers have sung some, or more recently all, of the songs so therefore David Johnstone feels that a cello version based on Leopold Auer’s violin transcription is a valid contribution for cellists. It should be mentioned that Wagner himself orchestrated ‘Träume’ for soloist with a chamber orchestra.

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