Wagner Leitmotifs | 33 Intersession : Tannhäuser @wagnerleitmotifs7654 | Uploaded July 2014 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
This leitmotif is first heard in act 2 scene 4.
This motif is Elizabeth's plea to the other singers, and knights to spare Tannhäuser's life, after he admits to having been inside the Venusberg, a capitol sin, and metaphor for carnal pleasure, over the more cerebral love advocated for by the other singers, and as dictated by God. She sings: "Ich fleh' für ihn, ich flehe für sein Lieben, zur Busse lenk' er reuevoll den Schritt!" ("I plead for him, and for his life I plead, full of remorse may he to penance wend")
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This leitmotif is first heard in act 2 scene 4.
This motif is Elizabeth's plea to the other singers, and knights to spare Tannhäuser's life, after he admits to having been inside the Venusberg, a capitol sin, and metaphor for carnal pleasure, over the more cerebral love advocated for by the other singers, and as dictated by God. She sings: "Ich fleh' für ihn, ich flehe für sein Lieben, zur Busse lenk' er reuevoll den Schritt!" ("I plead for him, and for his life I plead, full of remorse may he to penance wend")
Progenitor leitmotifs:
None
Related Leitmotifs:
None
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
None
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.
This video is designed for the purpose of teaching the viewer about the leitmotifs in Wagner's Operas, where they appear and how the work. This clearly comes under the umbrella of fair use. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
