Tag: Leitmotif
Wagner’s use of Leitmotif in Tristan und Isolde
Despite having only learnt the skills of harmony at the age of 15, having been discouraged from studying music by his mother, Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was perhaps the greatest exponent of both mid-nineteenth-century German romanticism and mid-nineteenth-century opera. In his operas, or ‘musical drama’, as Wagner referred to it, the music was only merely secondary…