MUSI 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Winifred Wagner, Siegfried Wagner, Wieland Wagner
25 May 2016
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Eva and isolde threatened siegfried because they were upset that he was going to have bayreuth. They tried to throw him in jail by telling everyone that he was gay. Cosima is still alive, she still oversees everything while siegfried is in charge. He is gay, but he marries a woman and has children. He was 45, wife winifred was 17: she loved wagner"s works, 4 children. Cosima threw isolde and beidler out of family: isolde sued her mom cosima and lost, isolde expelled from bayreuth. Age 3: sent to an orphanage in england. 1907: adopted by couple in their seventies named karl and henriette klindworth in a country house near. Karl: studied piano with liszt, old friend of wagner, guest at bayreuth, in 1914, 17 year old winifred goes to bayreuth. Siegfried marries because of family and legal pressure. Wieland and wolfgang ruled bayreuth, but they hated each other.
