Tribschen
Triebschen is a small promontory in Lake Lucerne with a country house on the outskirts of Lucerne (Quartier Langensand ). The villa now houses the Richard Wagner Museum.
History
The mansion was built as early as the late Middle Ages and first inhabited by the " Men 's trip to ". In the 18th century it was "at Rhyn " acquired in Luzern, the patrician family and rebuilt in its present form. Colonel Walter Ludwig am Rhyn -Schumacher leased the estate from 1866 to 1872 to Richard Wagner. Half honor conferred him on Rhyn a diploma, the Master granted the right, now on to the crest of the extinct family Triebschen. Wagner had fixed in Wahnfried. In 1931 the city of Lucerne acquired the building with 30,000 square meters of park. Two years later, the museum was founded.
In 1938, the prelude to the Lucerne Festival took place under the direction of Arturo Toscanini in front of the house. Before an audience of 1200 was, among others, the Siegfried Idyll on the program, which Wagner had composed in Triebschen. ( Wagner died 1883) Also in the commemorative year 1983 was a matinee with works and texts of Richard Wagner in the presence of Wagner's granddaughters instead.
Wagner asylum
After years of traveling the unstable cube-shaped house was, where he came in 1866, the " asylum " Richard Wagner initially at rest. He lived in Triebschen together with Cosima and her children for six years for rent. Here he completed the composition Meistersinger and continued to work on his Ring of the Nibelung. The daughter of the owner of the villa, Angelique am Rhyn, are in their " memories " an insight into the life of Wagner and draws an amusing picture of the " tenant " in Triebschen:
" In his usual leisure suit Wagner stood before my father, small in stature, witty, agile, with expressive blue eyes, heavily nasal of the Saxon dialect bedienend, which sounded to my ears Swiss immensely funny. He wore buckled shoes, bright, silk stockings, knee-breeches; an embroidered brocade vest with lace jabot hung loosely around her shoulders, a black velvet cap covered his distinctive head. At his side sat Cosima, the tall, graceful, slender woman in a white embroidered tulle dress. Her full dark blond hair fell over her shoulders; her beautiful smile and blue, sweet, often dreamy looking eyes all won their hearts by storm. The 'Lord', as he was called by the people of Lucerne usually, often was in financial difficulties and was only rarely able to pay the rent for Triebschen time. Did he stay too long overdue, so it could happen that my father went himself in his apartment to gently inquire about the status of Wagner's finances. Was the composer just in a good mood, he hosted his ' feudal lord ' - as he called my father - each princely, to comfort him about the unpaid rent. Suppressed but the lack of money too much, as Wagner did not show and was easily aligned, he now think no, receptionists '. Gifted with great acting talent, he was a congenial society often entertained for hours with witty and funny conversations, but rarely tolerated a contradiction. In support of his remarks, which also offered in a foreign language, were always vivid and rich in images, he sometimes fully led with his hands, arms, or memorable with the whole body, almost rhythmic movements, which often escalated to the most audacious. "
Friedrich Nietzsche in Triebschen
After his appointment as professor at Basel young Friedrich Nietzsche was born on May 17, 1869 for the first time after Triebschen and became friends with the Wagners. For these early Nietzsche Wagner was an "image " of the great Aeschylus. Nietzsche wrote to his friend Erwin Rohde:
" [ ... ] Which I have found a man, the image of what Schopenhauer calls the genius ', as disclosed, no other me and is completely penetrated by that wondrous intimate philosophy. This is none other than Richard Wagner, on the You can not believe a judgment which can be found in the press, in the writings of scholars, music etc.. Nobody knows him and can judge him, because all the world is a different foundation and in its atmosphere is not native. In it there is so absolute ideality, such a deep and touching humanity, such a sublime seriousness of life that I feel close to him as close to the divine. "
Nietzsche attended Wagner's over 20 times in Triebschen, lived in a private guest room and fell at home in Cosima, which he later called his " secret beloved Ariadne " designated. Later, when he recognized in various publications (eg, Nietzsche contra Wagner), he described his time in Triebschen as his happiest.
Siegfried Idyll
In Triebschen Wagner children Eva and Siegfried were born. For Cosima's 33rd birthday Wagner wrote to commemorate the birth of his only son secretly the Siegfried Idyll and left it on 25 December 1870 in Triebschen with a small chamber orchestra (among judges, Ruhoff, Rauchenecker and Kahl) perform. Cosima noted in her diary:
" As I awoke, my ear caught a sound, always full, he began to swell, no longer in the dream I could imagine me, resounded music, and what music! As she faded away, R. came with their five children to my house and handed me the score of, symphonic birthday greeting ', in tears I was, but also the entire house. On the stairs, R. had made his orchestra and so dedicated to our Triebschen forever! Those Tribscher idyll ' is the name of the work. [ ... ] After breakfast, the orchestra turned on again, and in the apartment below the idyll now came back to our all types Vibration; it Lohengrin 's wedding procession, the Septet by Beethoven, and finally again never heard enough! Now I understood R. 's secret work, now the good judge 's trumpet ( he smashed the Siegfried theme beautifully and had specifically learned trumpet). "