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  Cosima Wagner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cosima Francesca Gaetana Wagner (December 24, 1837 - April 1, 1930) was the daughter of the virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt.
In 1857, Cosima married Hans von Bülow, a piano virtuoso and teacher and orchestral conductor.
Cosima already had two children from her first marriage, and her future children by Wagner - Isolde, Eva and Siegfried - were born before she married him.
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 Richard Wagner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wagner was and remains a controversial figure, both for his musical and dramatic innovations, and for his anti-semitic and political opinions.
Wagner's final opera, Parsifal, which was written especially for the opening of Wagner's Festspielhaus in Bayreuth and which is described in the score as a "Bühnenweihfestspiel" (festival play for the consecration of the stage), is a contemplative work based on the Christian legend of the Holy Grail.
Wagner was responsible for several theatrical innovations developed at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, an opera house specially constructed for the performance of his operas (for the design of which he appropriated many of the ideas of his former colleague, Gottfried Semper, which he had solicited for a proposed new opera house at Munich).
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 Wagner, Richard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Wagner was reared in a theatrical family, had a classical education, and began composing at 17.
Wagner participated in the Revolution of 1848, fled Dresden, and with the help of Liszt escaped to Switzerland, where he stayed eight years.
Wagner’s second wife, Cosima Wagner, 1837–1930, was the daughter of Liszt and the comtesse d’Agoult.
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 Notes on Siegfried Idyll (1870)
Cosima Liszt, daughter of the famed Franz Liszt, was married to Hans von Bülow, one of the most famous conductors and pianists of the day, and a close friend of Wagner’s.
Because Wagner feared that an illegitimate child would anger his patrons, causing him to lose financial support, he didn’t claim Isolde as his own, and acted only as her godfather.
Cosima recorded the performance in her diary: “As I awoke, my ear caught a sound, which swelled fuller and fuller; no longer could I imagine myself to be dreaming, music was sounding, and such music!
jsundram.freeshell.org /ProgramNotes/Wagner_Siegfried.html   (465 words)

  
 [humanities.music.composers.wagner] Wagner Books FAQ
Wagner himself said that if he had not been an artist then he would have liked to have become a saint -- but precisely because he was an artist, he could not also be a saint.
It is clear from Cosima Wagner's Diaries that Wagner's private reaction to the split with Nietzsche was regret, a wish to have the breach healed, and an undoubtedly patronising pity for 'that poor young man' Nietzsche.
Wagner did not respond in public to Nietzsche's repeated attacks (except once, a very indirect reference in one of his essays, without mentioning Nietzsche's name); contra Köhler, the abuse was very much a one-way street, and not in the direction that Köhler suggests.
www.cs.uu.nl /wais/html/na-dir/music/wagner/books-faq.html   (10480 words)

  
 How Wagner's slave turns superman
Cosima, a figure no less formidable, seems to have been an even more repellent personality than her husband.
In a famous putdown of Wagner's compositions, Mark Twain remarked that "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." Nietzsche also got his lumps: Professional philosophers tended to dismiss him as a philologist whose views, like Wagner's, foreshadowed Nazism.
If Nietzsche aspired to be Wagner's chief disciple, he soon learned that he would be required to put himself entirely at the disposal of the master.
www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9899/04/18/wagner.html   (688 words)

  
 Nietzsche und Wagner
Wagner had lived there since April, 1866, after he had to retreat from Munich in such a humiliating manner; after a short time, Cosima von Bülow had moved to Tribschen, as well and, while she was still married to Hans von Bülow, was expecting her third child, her daughter Isolde.
Wagner is reported by her has having put an end to the playing with his cynical words (that are also most destructive as a comment among musicians), 'No Niezsche, you play much too well for a Professor'.
Wagner was not quite innocent in Nietzsche's non-completion of that work, since, in his discussions, referred to events of the time, particularly to David Friedrich Strauß and his book "Der alte und der neue Glaube" [The old and the new fairh] which he, in Cosima's words, found "entzetzlich seicht" [terribly shallow].
www.virtusens.de /walther/wagner_e.htm   (15065 words)

  
 Wagner's Muse
Wagner's surviving letters include several in which he give instructions for the purchase of fabrics and perfumes.
There followed a passionate flame (at least on Wagner's side) that, although possibly the relationship was never consummated, was to continue to burn until it was extinguished by Cosima in February 1878.
Cosima continues as ever before filled with feelings of admiration and gratitude towards you on account of the Japanese dress and all the other things you have chosen for her.
home.c2i.net /monsalvat/muse.htm   (1215 words)

  
 WSWDC: Santacroche Transcript, pt.1
The aspect of Schopenhauer's philosophy that Wagner did not abandon was the part which states that music is the ultimate form of expression, and that the union of words and music produces in the listener a depth of emotion that dwarfs the limits of either form by itself.
Also, for the Wagner who, nearing the end of his life, "collapses weeping and broken before the cross," it would be important to make a statement of faith that includes a repudiation of that profligacy.
Wagner's Holy Grail is the SYMBOL of Christ's continuing presence among us, and it is that symbol that is in danger of being lost forever as "Parsifal" opens, not the presence itself.
www.wagner-dc.org /santapt1.html   (5115 words)

  
 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Richard Wagner
Minna having died in 1866 and Cosima's marriage being annulled in 1869 (the year in which she gave birth to Wagner's son Siegfried), Wagner and Cosima were married in 1870.
Wagner's mus., richly expressive, intensely illustrative, and on the grandest scale, dominated the 19th cent.
Wagner brought to a fine art the use of Leitmotiv to depict not only characters but their emotions, and wove them into an orch.
www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/wagner.html   (1078 words)

  
 Pikle - The Diary Junction - Cosima Wagner
Cosima, born at Bellagio, was the illegitimate daughter of the famous pianist and composer, Franz Liszt, and Countess Marie d'Agoult, an author using the pen name Daniel Stern.
In 1862, she became the mistress of the German composer, Wagner, who was much older than she, and also married.
She had one child with Wagner, who was born before they married.
www.pikle.demon.co.uk /diaryjunction/data/wagner.html   (350 words)

  
 iv. Diaries of Richard and Cosima Wagner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The publication of diaries by Cosima Wagner, that had long been suppressed by the Wagner family, has greatly increased our knowledge of Richard and Cosima Wagner and their life together.
Wagner's Red Pocketbook, containing his autobiographical notes for the years 1835 to 1839.
Wagner's diary and notebook, which he used at various times between 1865 and 1882.
www.faqs.org /faqs/music/wagner/general-faq/section-39.html   (170 words)

  
 Cosima Wagner: A Marriage of Devotion and Coldness
When she was 18, Cosima married one of Liszt's students and a friend of Wagner's, the accomplished conductor and pianist Hans Von Bulow, with whom she had two children.
As soon as they were together Cosima began to devote herself to having her husband's life quiet and undisturbed, so that he could write his music.
With her encouragement Wagner completed the Ring series of operas for which the world is a much richer place and he was grateful to her.
www.barbaraallen.org /Mixup-Marriage-Part-B.html   (1072 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Nietzsche and Wagner: A Lesson in Subjugation: Books: Joachim Kohler,Ronald Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Wagner did not think Nietzsche was homosexual; instead, prescient in so many things, Wagner was the first major thinker to call Nietzsche a wanker (just kidding, Nietzsche fans).
It's clear from Cosima Wagner's Diaries that Wagner's private reaction to the split with Nietzsche was regret, a wish to have the breach healed, and an undoubtedly patronising pity for "that poor young man" Nietzsche.
In fact Wagner didn't respond in public to Nietzsche's repeated attacks (except once, a very indirect reference in one of his essays, without mentioning Nietzsche's name); contra Kohler, the abuse was very much a one-way street, and not in the direction that Kohler suggests.
www.amazon.com /Nietzsche-Wagner-Subjugation-Joachim-Kohler/dp/0300076401   (2272 words)

  
 Wagner Books FAQ for humanities.music.composers.wagner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It is clear from Cosima Wagner's Diaries that Wagner's private reaction to the split with Nietzsche was regret, a wish to have the breach healed, and an undoubtedly patronising pity for
A study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to an understanding of his music and drama, as well as their relation to music criticism and aesthetics in the 19th century in general.
Wagner's own piano and vocal arrangements of the various stages of the score are included in volume 20.
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 Wagner's Magic Lamp
Richard Wagner's relationship with the Jews is a tortuous saga, but few of its manifestations are as obscure as the affair of the Dresden lamp.
The outline of the story is embedded in the surviving fragments of a complex correspondence and a few passing entries in the diaries of Cosima Wagner.
Cosima obviously went out of her way to arrange the lamp as a present for Richard.
smerus.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /lamp1.htm   (661 words)

  
 Pro Arte: Wagner; Siegfried Idyll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
From its title one would guess that Wagner's Siegfried Idyll was, like Siegfried's Rhine Journey, connected to the hero of his mighty Ring tetralogy and perhaps drawn from the third part of that work, itself entitled Siegfried.
And it was there that Wagner prepared for his new wife an exquisite present for her thirty-third birthday, which fell on Christmas Day 1870.
Both Wagner and Cosima felt that this work was something connected to the intimacy of their marriage, so it was with some pain that Wagner, in a time of financial difficulty, sent it off to a publisher in November 1877.
www.proarte.org /notes/wagner.htm   (511 words)

  
 Richard Wagner - Wikimedia Commons
Deutsch: Richard Wagner (*1813 - †1883) war ein Komponist und mit Cosima Wagner verheiratet.
English: Richard Wagner (*1813 - †1883) was a German composer, spouse of Cosima Wagner.
Italiano: Richard Wagner (Lipsia, 22 maggio 1813 - Venezia, 13 febbraio 1883) fu un compositore e scrittore tedesco; sposò in seconde nozze Cosima Wagner, figlia di Franz Liszt.
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Richard_Wagner   (149 words)

  
 TIME.com: Cosima Wagner -- Mar. 10, 1923 -- Page 1
Frau Cosima Wagner—widow of the pre-eminent German musical composer, Wilhelm Richard Wagner, and daughter of Franz Liszt, of the Hungarian rhapsodies—is reduced to selling a number of her late husband's most valuable relics to keep the wolf from the door.
The fame of both Wagner and Liszt is international, and if the companion of one and the daughter of the other is left in indigenous circumstances, should not the whole world be stigmatized as shameless?
Wagner died at Venice in 1883 and was buried at Wahnfried, near Bayreuth in Bavaria.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,846441,00.html   (500 words)

  
 Cosima Wagner's Diaries
The coats of arms of the Wagner Society towns genuinely surprise him, and he is pleased with the ceiling.
The doctor came at 3:00, which made us all feel easier; but around 4 o'clock, since nobody had come out of his room, we became worried; then suddenly Georg appeared and told us simply that it was all over.
In her desire for death she refused all nourishment for many hours after Wagner died, then, yielding to the inevitable, cut off her hair and laid it in Wagner's coffin.
www.porges.net /CosimaWagnerDiaries.html   (974 words)

  
 Friedrich Nietzsche - Free Online Library
Later in life Nietzsche addressed Cosima Wagner as "Princess Ariadne" in his letters to her and declared that the author of them is the god Dionysus.
At Basel, Nietzsche had become a close friend of Richard Wagner (1813-1883), and the second part of The Birth of Tragedy deals with Wagner's music.
In Bayreuth Nietzsche had became increasingly aware of the impossibility of serving both Wagner and his own call.
nietzsche.thefreelibrary.com   (1626 words)

  
 Cosima Wagner's Diaries : An Abridgement (Reprint):Wagner, Cosima; Skelton, Geoffrey; Skelton, ...
Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima began her diaries on January 1, 1869, a few weeks after leaving her husband to live with Richard Wagner.
Until Wagner's death in 1883 they were rarely parted, and the diaries provided a continuous and intimate picture of the composer's life and work during those fourteen years.
Widely hailed when they were first published in Geoffrey Skelton's English translation in 1978 and 1980, the diaries are now available in an abridged paperback edition from Yale University Press.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0300069049   (150 words)

  
 v. Letters to and from Richard Wagner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It has been estimated that he wrote over 10,000 letters during his lifetime.
Unfortunately, Cosima Wagner destroyed many unpublished letters, including the originals of Richard's letters to Mathilde Wesendonck, Nietzsche's letters to Cosima, Peter Cornelius' letters to Richard, and all of the correspondence with Hans von Bülow in the period preceding and immediately after their divorce.
Many of Wagner's letters have been published, usually in a separate volume for each correspondent; for example, the letters between RW and Mathilde Wesendonck (an important resource for students of 'Tristan', 'Die Sieger' and 'Parsifal') were published in Berlin, 1904, with an English translation (by Ellis) of them published in London, in 1905.
www.faqs.org /faqs/music/wagner/general-faq/section-40.html   (239 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Cosima Wagner -- Mar. 10, 1923   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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