On the morning of December 25, 1870, the villa of Richard and Cosima Wagner in Tribschen, near Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, was filled with the sound of softly played strings and woodwinds. The music, ...
From this summer's La Jolla Summerfest, we hear the "Siegfried Idyll," by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The music was Wagner's birthday gift to his wife, Cosima, on her 33rd birthday.