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Adolf Hitler, a fervent Wagner admirer, first visited Wahnfried in 1923, and although he was not received by Cosima he befriended the family and was thereafter a regular visitor. [146] [147] The Chamberlains, together with Winifred, became enthusiastic members of the Nazi Party , and the 1924 festival became an overt rally for the party and its ...
After the deaths of Cosima and Siegfried Wagner in 1930, the operation of the Festival fell to Siegfried's widow, English-born Winifred, who was a friend of Adolf Hitler. The latter was a fanatical admirer of Wagner's music and sought to incorporate it into his heroic mythology of the German nation.
Jul 9, 2011 · Cosima Liszt-Bülow-Wagner is inseparable from the saga of Richard Wagner (1813-83) and his artistic legacy. Controversial as Wagner’s art was to be for generations, his stature was never in doubt. But our image of Cosima has been a curiously shifting one.
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Amongst those often listed as 'members' of a Hitlerian Bayreuth Circle are Cosima Wagner (d. 1930), second wife of the composer, Winifred Wagner, wife of the composer's son Siegfried, and H. S. Chamberlain.
Jun 8, 2000 · He was dangled on Cosima Wagner's knee, embraced and photographed with "Uncle Wolf" Hitler, was present in the town when his grandfather's historic home at Wahnfried was bombed by the...
Mar 9, 2007 · When Wagner died, the festival he had created for his operas was inherited by Cosima, who guarded it long and fiercely. Siegfried took full control only in 1924, when the festival finally...
Apr 15, 2024 · Cosima Wagner (born December 25, 1837, Bellagio, Lombardy, Austrian Empire [now in Italy]—died April 1, 1930, Bayreuth, Germany) was the wife of the composer Richard Wagner and director of the Bayreuth Festivals from his death in 1883 to 1908.
