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47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I remember, said the Master,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is that young man?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My poor Schnorr!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a photograph of Schnorr von Karolsfeld, 'the hero of song,' as Wagner called him--suddenly cut off by Death in the very fulness of triumphant lif... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas! how many obstacles, how many fresh struggles, and before the work could be achieved, how cruel the death that struck down the hero, in the fulness of youth, in the fulness of beauty!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His Excellency The Counsellor Isérof and Madame Isérof, who have come from Russia to see me."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Counsellor Isérof is a composer well thought of in Russia, who is worthy of being admitted into the free-masonry of the brotherhood if only to uphold firmly the Wagnerian standard at Petersburg. Of his wife there is not much to say. She seems to be rather in the background. They... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will also see my father, and someone who is very dear to him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel sure, she continued,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then there was an original?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, madame; before you we... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you not see that she is fainting?"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Above all things, do not notice him; do not look surprised, or you can never tell where he will end."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "While you are in Munich, Wagner said to me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you should be able, in connection with the ... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps you do not know, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wagner condemned to death!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is incredible, is it not? But you must not imagine that he was a very fierce democrat. He was occupied only with questions of ... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now let us hurry down. They have probably already noticed our absence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Vaudeville,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Vaudeville,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are a true poet, said Wagner to the author, who was greatly elated,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A feminine Prometheus, concluded he,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yellow turnips!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It can't be yellow turnips. It is more like bits of raw pumpkin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Omelet with Apricots."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Omelet with Apricots."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tristan and Isolde."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Von Pfistermeister, Aulic Secretary to His Majesty the King of Bavaria."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men of genius equal to that of Wagner re-visit the earth only once in a thousand years."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A man with genius equal to that of Wagner, responded the king,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He knows and understands me like my own soul. He longs to remove all my troubles and embarrassments, and help me to accomplish my work!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Meistersinger _ and recommenced work on the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ring of the Nibelung."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Physiology of Taste."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We admired him for that, and Villiers declared that if he understood German better he would compose a poem in which he would say magnificent things, and would send it to Ludwig II."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Die Walküre, _ those well-known stanzas that Wagner add... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trois Rois Mages, _ after going a short distance was obliged to stop before a military orchestra. Fine looking, fair-haired soldiers in sky-blue uniforms, were grouped about their leader, and were playing nothing else than the religious march from"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Virgin is seated at evening before an edifice: at her knee the little Jesus seizes with the right hand the lung border of her robe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vanity under the guise of a beautiful woman of luxurious form, supporting herself with the left hand... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Die Meistersinger"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll wager it is they."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Die Meistersinger,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No longer any doubt, one of them said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am Hans Richter-- said he as he saluted us--"
},
{
"from"... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We had promised, said Richter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Liszt will be there, exclaimed Servais,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Liszt!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Le Caprice a taillé son petit nez charmant...."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Cathedral of the God Love,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Auprès d'elle la neige de l'Himalaya Paraît grise comme la cendre; Le lis que sa main saisit, aussitôt, par le contraste Ou par jalousie, devient couleur de rouille..."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "L'ivoire, où ses mains ont des ailes, Et, comme des papillons blancs, Sur la pointe des notes frêles Suspendent leurs baisers tremblants..."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have seen Cosima?"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg of you, do not say anything against your daughter to me. I am her partisan to such an extent that I cannot admit any blame. In the face of a personality so superhuman as Richard Wagner's, the prejudices and even the laws of men cannot prevail. Who would not feel the fascin... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was only four years ago that he took the orders, said Servais to me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In what way, and why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one knows! On his return from a journey to Rome, he was a priest. Perhaps he wished, in this w... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what news?"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guard well the secret that I confide to you; I will do my best on my return to Italy, to stop a few hours at Lucerne in order to embrace my daughter and my grandchildren."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is only one thing that can save the situation, cried he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is only one excuse that Villiers can make. Death! Yes, yes, for the honour of us all he must die!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Savages! Pirogues!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The true course to the Abyss!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where do these beings come from? I demanded,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, it is better not to know. It is never good to investigate too deeply. We have seen a vision, have we not, of fer... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a glimpse of a misty sea, a dreamlike twilight around an unknown isle, then, in a luminous eddy, a great sphinx emerges from the waves and swims toward the bank. Across her back a violet banner is floating, and on the banner in letters of gold gleams the word: Inviolata!"... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us be serious again, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! cried I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, if you could see with what fine little touches it has all been refreshed! In the first place, I have changed the title, which is now: 'Mun... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Germans, when they see Courbet's paintings, say, 'A painter as good as he is rough, he sees like a peasant and paints like a professor, which is saying a great deal,' they add laughing."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to slip a new sentence in there, said Villiers."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rap! Rap!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we must not laugh too much about that king who, in the place of military glory, has bequeathed to his people schools where the children are taught to develop a lofty and noble character."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At last you are found! cried she,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is very wrong of you to be so exclusive, continued Madame Muchanoff,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Charades!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of Literature and Dramatic Art in Spain Wagner esteemed very highly; he knew Arabic, Persian, Sanscrit, and had translated, among others, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Book of the Kings of Ferdousi. At one time the Master contemplated a musical drama fou... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is absolutely necessary that you should paint the portrait of Richard Wagner, it is a disgrace to Germany that no artist of worth has yet attempted it. Madame Cosima sends the order to you, and leaves you free to fix your own price."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tartufflipp, [1] and his title of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hofrath changed itself for us into"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chaussetrappe."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tartufflipp,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For very many years I have waited for this moment, said Liszt,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hütet das Gold! Vater warnte Von solchem Feind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What dost thou seek, thou who comest up from below?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wie scheint im Schimmer Ihr hell und schön Wie gern umschlänge Der schlanken eine mein Arm ... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At this moment is heard for the first and only time, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leit-motif of the sword, that sword called"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothung"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Huldigung-Marsch"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sea-side parasol,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfall will not allow anything to be seen of his stage arrangements, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perfall, Perfide!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing is able to give any idea of the magic of that glance,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not direct such a _Rheingold_ cried he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And to us he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait for me at the Café Maximilian, we must join together in forewarning the Master."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Postpone the representation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The representation will take place on Sunday,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall see!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall see!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will they really offer me such an insult as to give my work to-morrow?"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The representation of the _Rheingold_ will not take place this evening, because I will not conduct the work against the wish of its author."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will not conduct it this evening, nor any other evening, cried Perfall--"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I await a response from the King to a letter sent off to-day."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alte Pferdestrasse, Wagner, who has just arrived in Munich, is there, come to-night, after dark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Richard Wagner here!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alte Pferdestrasse, said Servais,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wagner has gone to Scheffer's home: what an honour!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is this Scheffer, then? asked Villiers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is corresponden... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alte Pferdestrasse."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, dear friend, he said to me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the King, what does the King say?"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How could he understand, after having put at the disposition of the Director the enormous sum of sixty thousand florins, and commanding him not to spare time in obtaining a perfect result, how could he imagine such bad will and malevolence in those whom he employs?"
},
{
... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of his sisters with her husband and daughter; an eminent student of Sanscrit, professor at the University of Leipzig; a philologist of Basle"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you recall that sentence of _King Lear_, he asked me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! without seeing even one rehearsal of your work?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the theatre would be quite likely to collapse upon me if I passed its threshol... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is still another thing; it is that human malignity is no longer able to reach or hurt me deeply across the warm affection and the devotion which surround me. This certainty has comforted me. You see that even here, as I go away, I leave friends. You also know with what anx... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is Goethe, by Widnmann,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a striking likeness!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are younger, Master; the Immortals have no age."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since they have chased me out of Munich, said Wagner"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall remain only a few days, said I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah! the conqueror saves himself and will be out of reach of his blows. But let it be well unders... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One would say that his palate was made of tin,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The curious thing about it, said Richter,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should certainly be very glad, he wrote,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is you who have prevented the theatre from carrying out the King's orders; you sare the servants of a traitor, traitors yourselves.... It is not to be endured much longer etc...."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prussian spy."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! there you are at last! cried he, hurrying down the steps."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Without knowing any thing about it, I expected you to-day!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not, as Cosima declared,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can imagine, Cosima said to me,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know how we were occupied when you arrived?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were making music, but it did not seem to me to be from Wagner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We were playing, Cosima and I, some of Haydn's symphonies, arranged for ... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do hurry, Cosima, Fidi detests me and wishes to get away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No indeed, he loves you very much, cried the bather,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now that I know your writing, said I to Cosima,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I realise that the letter was by your own hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is true, Wagner wrote it first in German. I translated it into French, then we re-read it ... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "RICHARD WAGNER."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Master was nevertheless, very well satisfied with the success of the piece, said Cosima,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eva as a messenger of peace must have been delicious...."
},
{
"from": "gp... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Venus, my beautiful Goddess, Thou art in truth a demon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Moniteur or the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Artiste, we no longer remember which, an appreciative article which ended in expressing astonishment that an opera so o... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ruy-Blas and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Légende des Siècles"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Written about thirty years ago, with a view to grand opera, Rienzi presents no difficulties for the singers to overcome, and offers to the Parisian public... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rienzi or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rienzo,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the trumpet shall have sounded thrice,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rise, O Sun, and make the light of liberty to shine upon the world."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is nothing! Only rather a bore! said Cosima, after reading it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two elderly people, named Schott, husband and wife, announce that they will visit us this evening after supper. They are very worthy people, but he, at one time, did Wagn... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe a light is dawning in my mind, said I to Cosima."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait for me where you are."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My friends, I said to them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not at all, not at all, replied Se... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My beloved?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My darling, art thou truly mine?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dost thou still belong to me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are these thine eyes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is thi... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah well, cut him in two!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tar"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[1] with especial significance: then they begin the prelude to _Lohengrin_. Pasdeloup, according to his custom, rounds his back, wrinkles his good-natured face, extends his arms with gestures half supplicating, half soothing, in order to secure"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it had only been a nice hair broom! But that ugly old one used to sweep the court!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee thane of Glamis!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter. And the audience is supposed to understand that the third syll... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tarlatane."
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who can be ringing at my house at such an hour?"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are no doubt mistaken in the floor, sir, as I have not the honour of your acquaintance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How, Madam, you do not remember me! You know me very well, nevertheless. We have met in society, and I came here once to a Soirée at your house.... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I truly believe that you have lost your common-sense."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, do you imagine that I am intoxicated? Ah well, you will see that is quite impossible when I tell you that I have dined at home: a plain and frugal dinner, of which I retain a v... |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heavens! where have you been? Why are you so late? We had here a troupe of wonderful comedians, who played the drollest possible piece.... How unfortunate that you missed them! You will never see anything like it again!"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-day, said he,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not want you to misunderstand this work,"
}
] |
47080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Theâtre de la Monnaie"
}
] |
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