Falconer - Jack The Knife

Wagner hastily set about finding suitable housing in which no one could interfere with his quiet work. He rented rooms with a view of the Grand Canal in the Giustiniani Palace, unpacked his luggage and decided that it was here that he would finish his Tristan, for which, under the influence of a difficult state of mind from the moment of the crisis in relations with Matilda Vesendonk, he interrupted his work over the Siegfried. As early as June 28, 1858, Wagner wrote to List: “I brought my young Siegfried into the thicket of a wild forest; there I laid him at the foot of the linden and said goodbye to him, shed sincere tears. There he is better than anywhere else.