Liebestod
Musical composition by Richard Wagner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Liebestod" ([ˈliːbəsˌtoːt] German for "love death") is the title of the final, dramatic music from the 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner. It is the climactic end of the opera, as Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body.
![\n \\new Staff \\with { \\remove "Time_signature_engraver" } <<\n \\key c \\major\n \\new Voice \\relative c' {\n \\override TextSpanner.style = #'line\n \\override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \\markup { \\draw-line #'(0 . -2) }\n \\set Staff.midiInstrument = #"violin" \n \\stemUp\n cis'2 \\startTextSpan ^\\markup { Liebestod (death in love) }\n fis | fis eis | e!2.. fis!8 | gis1 \\stopTextSpan\n }\n \\new Voice \\relative c' {\n \\stemDown\n \\override TextSpanner.style = #'line\n \\override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \\markup { \\draw-line #'(0 . 2) }\n \\override TextSpanner.Y-offset = #-7\n\n s1 s1\n a'4 \\startTextSpan _\\markup { \\lower #7 "transfiguration in love" }\n b16 a16 gis16 a16\n \\autoBeamOff [ fis'8 e8 ] \\autoBeamOn cis8 a8 |\n a2 gis2 \\stopTextSpan\n }\n >>\n](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/1/m/1mt7axl2gu9h411b7ikrua4v22a7hs9/1mt7axl2.png)
Liebestod motif
The music is often used in film and television productions of doomed lovers.[1]