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Cosima Wagner : the lady of Bayreuth / Oliver Hilmes ; translated by Stewart Spencer.
- Title
- Cosima Wagner : the lady of Bayreuth / Oliver Hilmes ; translated by Stewart Spencer.
- Author
- Hilmes, Oliver
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Spencer, Stewart
- Description
- xviii, 366 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner--illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Richard Wagner. After Wagner's death in 1883 Cosima played a crucial role in the promulgation and politicization of his works, assuming control of the Bayreuth Festival and transforming it into a shrine to German nationalism. The High Priestess of the Wagnerian cult, Cosima lived on for almost fifty years, crafting the image of Richard Wagner through her organizational ability and ideological tenacity. The first book to make use of the available documentation at Bayreuth, this biography explores the achievements of this remarkable and obsessive woman while illuminating a still-hidden chapter of European cultural history [Publisher description].
- Uniform Title
- Herrin des Hugels. English
- Alternative Title
- Herrin des Hugels.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographie.
- Biografie
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-354) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Contents
- A childhood without parents (1837-55) -- A marriage of convenience (1855-64) -- Wagner (1864-83) -- The first lady of Bayreuth (1883-1900) -- A new era (1900-14) -- The long end (1914-30).
- ISBN
- 9780300152159 (cl : alk. paper)
- 0300152159 (cl : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009038775
- OCLC
- 439210897
- SCSB-10084000
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library