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The latter, which was originally the overture to the opera, but afterwards discarded by the composer, is the one given *at this concert. The difference between the two versions is impor- tant : both begin alike and remain alike, note for note, up to just before the re-entrance of the theme of the pilgrims' chorus, with its spirally whirl- ing violin accompaniment. At this point, right in the midst of the rushing Venus-Mountain music, the newer, " dramatic " version breaks away from the original, and leads directly into the bacchanalian music of the first scene of the opera. In 1861 Wagner had firmly established his principles of the music-drama, and his overture to Tannhauser no longer satisfied him ; ac- cording to his then matured musico-dramatic creed, an overture — or, as he preferred to call it, a Vorspiel — must not be a musical resumt of the action of an opera, but essentially a prelude to it. He found that the final return of the pilgrims' chorus had no dramatic sense, and therefore cut it out, con- necting the overture, as has been said, directly with the first scene of the opera. Perhaps also he may have felt that there were purely musical reasons against retaining the original Coda of the overture ; the pilgrims' chant, returning in E major on three trombones and three trumpets in FOR BRAIN-WORKERS, THE WEAK AND DEBILITATED. Is, without exception, the Best Remedy for relieving Mental and Nervous Exhaustion ; and, where the system has become debilitated by disease, it acts as a general tonic and vitalizer, affording sustenance to both brain and body. Dr. E. Cornell Easten, Philadelphia, Pa., says, "I have met with the greatest and most satisfactory results in dyspepsia and general derangement of the cerebral and nervous systems, causing debility and exhaustion." Descriptive pamphlet free. Rumford Chemical Works . Providence, R.I. Beware of Substitutes and Imitations. 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Be this as it may, every con- sideration was in favor of curtailing the overture to serve as a prelude to the opera ; but the original form of the composition was so extraordinarily effective in itself that it has been retained for concert use. All the themes in the overture to Tannhauser are taken from the music of the opera. There is, to begin with, the pilgrims' chant, which forms the slow introduction to the composition, and returns in the closing Coda with redoubled force and energy. Then, in the Allegro, the first theme — spi- rally ascending in the violas beneath a high tremolo on the violins — and all its subsidiaries are taken from the bacchanalian music of the first scene in the Venus-Mountain ; the second theme, an impassioned melody sung by the violins against ascending figures in the 'celli, is none other than Tann- hauser's song in praise of Venus, which all but costs him his life in the Singers' Contest in the second act, after gaining him his freedom from the thraldom of Venus in the first. The alluring little episode on the clarinet, near the middle of the movement, is Venus's phrase, — " Geliebter, komtrt ! sieh1 dort die Grotte!" (Beloved, come! see the grotto yonder!),— with which she tries to lure Tannhauser back to his allegiance to her and her charms in the Venus-Mountain scene in the first act. 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