Tristan

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Tristan (Tristram) Hero of many medieval romances, most commonly as a knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian romances. His fatal love for the Irish Princess Isolde (or Iseult) is the subject of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde (1865). See also Arthur

Tristan

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Tristan. Preludes for pf., orch., and tape by Henze. Comp. 1973. F.p. London, 1974 ( Homero Francesch, pf., cond. C. Davis).