In Love’s Triangle: Wagner, Mahler, Wolf & Schiele

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Perhaps, each of us, sooner or later in life, faces the fact that a ‘love triangle’ transcends a philosophical abstraction and becomes part of our real experience. For me, this theme is not just a theoretical concept but, fortunately or unfortunately, a part of my past

A love triangle is not just a social conflict or a plot for a soap opera. Exploring love triangles through the prism of the lives and creativity of such genius figures as Wagner, Mahler, Wolf, and Schiele, we can try to unravel the mystery of true love, honor, and dignity.  

Wagner found himself involved in a love triangle more than once. Initially, his feelings for Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of his benefactor, remained platonic (at least, that is the belief), but then his relationship with Cosima von Bülow, the daughter of Franz Liszt and the wife of his…