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Family of Carl Friedrich Wagner. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1770–1813), a police actuary ∞ 1798 Johanna Rosine Pätz (1778–1848), daughter of a baker (after being widowed, in 1814 she became the partner of the painter, actor and writer Ludwig Geyer (1779–1821), whose rumoured paternity of Richard Wagner is neither substantiated nor ...
There is also controversy over both the beginning and the end of Wagner's life – his paternity and his death. It is suggested that he was the son of Ludwig Geyer, rather than his legal father Carl Friedrich Wagner, and some of his biographers have proposed that Wagner himself believed that Geyer was Jewish.
Aug 8, 2023 · by Mark Cartwright. published on 08 August 2023. Available in other languages: Dutch, French. Richard Wagner. Franz Hanfstaengl (Public Domain) Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer of Romantic music most famous for his epic operas like The Ring, Tannhäuser, and Tristan and Isolde.
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May 21, 2013 · In any event, his operas are performed today more often than ever before. He came from a middle-class family. The father, Carl Friedrich Wagner, was a police actuary; his mother, Johanna...
Leipzig University. Childhood & Early Life. Richard Wagner was born on 22 May 1813 in Leipzig, Germany, to a baker’s daughter, Johanna Rosine and her husband Carl Friedrich Wagner, a clerk in the police service who died of typhus six months after Richard’s birth. He was the 9th child of his parents.
Nov 20, 2013 · His father Carl Friedrich Wagner, a clerk in the Leipzig police service, died of typhus six months after the composer was born, and his mother, Johanna Rosine, immediately moved in with...
Wagner's father, at least in name, was Carl Friedrich Wagner, a police actuary who died during a typhoid epidemic on November 23, 1813 while Richard was still in his infancy. In recent years, however, evidence has indicated that Wagner's biological father may have actually been Ludwig Geyer, a talented painter, actor, and poet.
