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With writer Page Cooper in 1945, Friedelind Wagner wrote her memoirs Heritage of Fire. Published in English, it was released in London in 1948 as The Royal Family of Bayreuth.
From the day of her birth in 1918, Friedelind Wagner had little choice but to cope with the legacy—and burden—of being a descendant of one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time, Richard Wagner.
Friedelind Wagner (1918-1991), Richard Wagner's independent-minded granddaughter, daughter of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, despised her mother's close liaison with Adolf Hitler and was the only member of the Wagner clan who fled Germany in protest.
- Eva Rieger, Chris Walton
- 2013
May 10, 1991 · May 10, 1991 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Friedelind Wagner, maverick granddaughter of Richard Wagner and a devotee of musical theater whose denouncement of the pro-Nazi Wagner festival...
Friedelind had long cast off her early anti-Semitism and her circle of friends already included many who were Jewish. She got up late and used her mornings to write letters and articles on her typewriter.
Dec 5, 2013 · Friedelind Wagner, great-granddaughter of Liszt, granddaughter of Cosima and Richard Wagner and the daughter of Winifred and Siegfried, was a strong-willed personality who talked much: too much, some thought. Her arguments were loud and passionate, often undiplomatic to the point of tactlessness. Yet she exuded an aura that fascinated others.
With writer Page Cooper, in 1945 Friedelind Wagner wrote her memoirs "Heritage of Fire."
