This was the home of the great German composer Richard Wagner from 30 March 1866 to 22 April 1872. It is now the Richard Wagner Museum. Located in Tribschen, a suburb of Lucerne in the Canton of Lucerne in central Switzerland, it was the former country home of a patrician family that had acquired the manor in the 18th century. Its roots can be traced back to the 15th century, however. It was while he was living here that Wagner completed the score of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, composed his "Emperor March" and the third act of Siegfried, and began Götterdämmerung. It was also at Tribschen that he composed his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday gift to his second wife, Cosima, who had recently given birth to the couple's first legitimate child, a son Siegfried. The couple had had two children while Cosima was married to conductor Hans von Bülow. The Idyll was performed for the first time on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1870 (Cosima's thirty-third birthday) by an ensemble of fifteen players (among them Richter, Ruhoff, Rauchenecker and Kahl) on the stairs of the villa (pictured above).