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| | Sample Chapter for Wagner, N.; Osers, E. and Downes, M., trans.: The Wagners: The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty. |
 | | Wagner's Bayreuth was constructed from the combination of various elements of Wagner's work with physical characteristics of the Fest spielhaus itself: the acoustic consequences of its architecture and its remote, elitist location. |
 | | The circle was also an important image for the followers of Wagner: the 'Bayreuth Circle', active in Wagner's lifetime as propagandists of his work, developed an ideology of cultish, nationalistic philistinism after the composer's death--their very name reveals their intellectual isolation. |
 | | Beginning in the 'New Bayreuth' of her father, Wieland, whose post-war spirit and imagery moulded her childhood and youth, an educational journey through the world--taking in musical and intellectual-Jewish America, philosophical circles in France and finally literary Austria--gave rise to new and di3erent views on Wagner. |
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