Eduard Hanslick's reaction in 1868 to the prelude to Tristan was that it "reminds one of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel."
A reacción de Eduard Hanslick ao Preludio de Tristan und Isolde en 1868 foi que "lembra unha das vellas pinturas italianas dun mártir cuxos intestinos se desenrolan lentamente do seu corpo."