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Mathilde Wesendonck

Mathilde Wesendonck
Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet and author (d. 1902)

Agnes Mathilde Wesendonck was a German poet and author. The words of five of her verses were the basis of Richard Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder; the composer was infatuated with her, and his wife Minna blamed Mathilde for the break-up of their marriage.

23 December 1828

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