[181] Without opus number.
[182] The first performance of the overture in its original form was in Dresden, July 22, 1844, at a concert in the pavilion of the Grosser Garten.
[183] By Mr. Charles T. Brooks.
[184] These passages from the Wagner-Liszt correspondence are from the English version by Francis Hueffer.
[185] Without opus number.
[186] Cosima married von Bülow in Berlin, August 18, 1857; they were divorced in the autumn of 1869.
[187] From Finck's Wagner and His Works.
[188] These motives are: (1) The "Peace" motive, from the love scene in the third act, first heard at Brünnhilde's words: Ewig wär ich, ewig bin ich, ewig in süss sehnender Wonne—doch ewig zu deinem Heil! ("I have been forever, I am forever, ever in sweet yearning rapture—but ever to thy salvation!"); (2) a portion of the "Slumber" motive (first heard in "Die Walküre"); (3) a theme of two descending notes taken from Brünnhilde's cry (in the love scene): O Siegfried! Siegfried! sieh' meine Angst! ("O Siegfried, Siegfried, behold my terror!"); (4) the "Treasure of the World" motive, accompanying Brünnhilde's apostrophe: O Siegfried, Herrlicher! Hort der Welt! ("O Siegfried, glorious one! Treasure of the world!"); (5) Siegfried's "Wander" motive, first heard in Act I., where the son of Siegmund exuberantly announces to Mime that he is going forth into the world, never to return; (6) fragments of the bird-call from the Waldweben in the second act; and (7) the figure which accompanies Siegfried's ecstatic words near the climax of the love scene: Ein herrlich Gewässer wogt vor mir ("a wondrous sea surges before me").