Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Directing --- Wagner, Wolfgang

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Opera producers and directors --- Music festivals --- Producteurs et metteurs en scène d'opéra --- Festivals de musique --- Biography. --- History --- Biographies --- Histoire --- Wagner, Wolfgang, --- Bayreuther Festspiele

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

A family saga that mirrors Germany's rise, fall, and resurrection. Richard Wagner was many things--composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite--and his descendants have carried on his complex legacy. Here, biographer Jonathan Carr retraces the path of the renowned composer and his descendants, showing how its history and that of Europe are intertwined. Along the way, Carr offers glimpses of Franz Liszt (whose illegitimate daughter Cosima married Wagner); Friedrich Nietzsche; Arthur Schopenhauer; Alberto Toscanini; Joseph Goebbels; Hermann Göring; and Adolf Hitler, a passionate fan of the Master's music and an adopted uncle to Wagner's grandchildren. All through the war the Bayreuth Festival, begun by the Master himself, was supported by Hitler, who had to fill out the meager audience with fighting men and SS officers. After the war, the festival was dark for a decade until Wagner's offspring--with characteristic ambition and cunning--revived it.--From publisher description.

Music and antisemitism --- National socialism and music --- Opera festivals --- Musique et antisémitisme --- Nazisme et musique --- Festivals d'opéra --- Wagner family. --- Wagner, Richard, --- Wagner, Cosima, --- Wagner, Siegfried, --- Wagner, Winifred. --- Wagner, Wolfgang, --- Bayreuther Festspiele --- History.