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Friedelind Wagner. Friedelind Wagner (29 March 1918 – 8 May 1991) was the elder daughter of German opera composer Siegfried Wagner and his English wife Winifred Williams and the granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner. She was also the great-granddaughter of the composer Franz Liszt . Born in Bayreuth, she was known by the nickname Die ...
- 8 May 1991 (aged 73), Herdecke, Germany
May 9, 1991 · Friedelind Wagner, always a rebel, resisted that trend and finally fled Germany in 1940 amid a burst of publicity. "I was always stubborn and independent," she said in an interview in 1944.
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Wagner, Friedelind (1918–1991) German author and lecturer, granddaughter of Richard Wagner, who broke with her family's tradition of nationalism and racism and fled Nazi Germany while maintaining her influential link with Wagnerian scholarship . Born in Bayreuth, Germany, on March 29, 1918; died in Herdecke, Germany, on May 8, 1991; daughter ...
May 8, 1991 · German opera director (1918–1991) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Friedelind Wagner (29 March 1918 – 8 May 1991) was the elder daughter of German opera composer Siegfried Wagner and his English wife Winifred Williams and the granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner. She was also the great-granddaughter of the composer Franz Liszt.
May 10, 1991 · Friedelind Wagner, maverick granddaughter of Richard Wagner and a devotee of musical theater whose denouncement of the pro-Nazi Wagner festival launched by her family brought her scorn and ...
Friedelind was the second child of Wagner’s only son Siegfried and was particularly close to her father, so his unexpected death in 1930 was a great shock to the twelve year-old child. Her teenage years paralleled those of the rise of Nazism in Germany and a family friend was the Wagner-obsessed Adolf Hitler, who invariably dropped in for tea ...
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.
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