An opera by this composer uses an onstage ensemble of three piccolos, six horns, a tam-tam, and a windmachine to depict an oncoming storm in Act III. 
An opera by this composer uses an onstage ensemble of three piccolos, six horns, a tam-tam, and a windmachine to depict an oncoming storm in Act III. In that opera by this composer, the protagonist ignores thenagging of her nurse Mary and sings "Traft ihr das Schiff," her namesake ballad, to a chorus of young girls attheir spinning wheels. An opera by this composer ends as a character sings that her lover smiles "softly andgently" and that his dead body "shines ever brighter" in her final aria, the "Liebestod." The prelude to that operaby him introduces a dissonant chord named for the first title character, a knight of the Round Table. For 10points, name this German composer of The Flying Dutchman and Tristan und Isolde.