Richard and Cosima Wagner : Biography of a Marriage / by Geoffrey Skelton - Hardcover

Skelton, Geoffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039531836X ISBN 13: 9780395318362

Verlag: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1982

Inhaltsangabe

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 319 pages; Description: 319 p. , 12 p. Of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [307]-310. Subjects: Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) --Marriage --Wagner Cosima (1837-1930) --Composers --Musicians' spouses --Germany --Biography. Summary: In 1864 Richard Wagner was summoned to Munich by the young and handsome but mentally unstable King Ludwig II of Bavaria. With the king's patronage he was given the means to complete his Ring cycle and to produce his works under ideal circumstances. There began the intimate association between Wagner and Franz Lizt's daughter Cosima. Both were married. She was twenty-six and a mother of two; he was fifty-one. Cosima's husband, Hans von Bulow, was the prinicpal conductor of Wagner's work. Drawing on new sources, most notably Cosima's Diaries and Wagner's Brown Book, Geoffrey Skelton retells the story of Richard Wagner's last years and of his marraige to Cosima, casting new light on the Wagners and on Hans von Bulow, and reconstructing a more balanced picture of the relationship between Wagner and King Ludwig than has hitherto been available.

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• Verlag: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1982
• ISBN 10: 039531836X
• ISBN 13: 9780395318362
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1