Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character

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But on the first of European operatic stages it [Tristan and Isolde] was never once performed during Richard Wagner's life; the Vienna Hofoper, having owed him a debt of honour for a score of years, only paid it to his manes. Tristan and Isolde was set and mounted with the utmost splendour in the spring of 1884; its cast comprised Winkelmann, Scaria and Frau Materna; its "tone-poem" was interpreted by the finest operatic orchestra in the world; but it is a pity that so handsome an amende honorable could not have been made but one twelvemonth sooner, to the living Master, instead of to his justly offended shade. 

But on the first of European operatic stages it [Tristan and Isolde] was never once performed during Richard Wagner's life; the Vienna Hofoper, having owed him a debt of honour for a score of years, only paid it to his manes. Tristan and Isolde was set and mounted with the utmost splendour in the spring of 1884; its cast comprised Winkelmann, Scaria and Frau Materna; its "tone-poem" was interpreted by the finest operatic orchestra in the world; but it is a pity that so handsome an amende honorable could not have been made but one twelvemonth sooner, to the living Master, instead of to his justly offended shade. 

excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 297-298 (107 words)

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