"Love's Peace (a)"

"Love's Peace (b)"

"Love's Peace (c)"



Scruton claims that this motive is a variation of Motive 10.  Most Wagner scholars have not analyzed this passage as an independent motive.  Those who have are mentioned below.  Motive 29b is simply a varied transposition of Motive 29a.

Motive Labels a
“Eternal Rest” – (Cleather)
“Happiness”

Motive Labels b
“Love’s Peace” – (Kobbé, p. 126)
“Felicity” – (Lavignac, p. 303)
“Liebesberuhigung” or “Pacification of Love” – (Pfohl, p. 215)
“Motiv der Liebesruhe” or “Motive of Lovers’ Peace” – (Windsperger, p. 43)
“Tristan and Isolde Invoke Death” – (Fischer, p. 14)
“Freedom From Life’s Yearning” – (Fischer, p. 14)
“Lovers’ Vision of an Ultimate Union in Death” – (Redlich, p. 26)

Motive Labels c
“Felicity” – (Lavignac, p. 304)

Love's Peace – Order of occurrence by Act and Scene
Act II: Scenes 2-3
Act III: Scenes 1-2