About this title: It's not surprising that when Frank Martin, one of the twentieth century's most devout composers, began a work based on the legend of Tristan and Iseult, he turned not to Thomas Malory's Le morte d'Arthur or to Wagner's source, Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan, both of which depict the lovers as totally abandoned to their passion, but to Joseph Bédier's Le roman de Tristan et Iseut (1900), which was based on sources earlier than Malory or von Strassburg, in which the lovers, in spite of their passionate love, remain chaste for the sake of their honor. The combination of chastity and passion ...
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