Word: cosima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contralto; of hemorrhage of the throat and lungs, after leukemia; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Major in the Imperial Army, she sang in her first public concert at Graz at 15, earned $6. In 1878 she won a debut and a four-year contract at Dresden, was chosen by Cosima Wagner to sing at Bayreuth before she was brought to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company in 1898. During the War her son August died as a German sailor, her sons Henry and George Washington enlisted with the U. S. Navy. She had signed a three-year movie contract when...
...release last week of a Toscanini Wagner album,* which included the Preludes to the first and third acts of Lohengrin; Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung; the tender Siegfried Idyll, composed by Wagner as a Christmas serenade for his wife Cosima the year after their son Siegfried was born. The Toscanini performances are peerless, the recordings faithful. First week sales were unparalleled, according to record dealers, since the days of Caruso. From headquarters in Camden. N. J., RCA Victor reported that few other albums have sold so well in a year as Toscanini...
...Catherine, Countess d'Agoult, a beauteous unmusical mother of three, whose elderly husband bored her. The year was 1833. She was 28, he, 22. They ran away to Geneva, spent eleven years of romantic vagabondage interrupted only by his concert tours. She bore him three illegitimate children of whom Cosima (named after Lake Como) was to achieve fame by deserting her devoted husband to marry his dearest friend, Richard Wagner...
...Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra (Brunswick, $7.50) -The composer's own version of the charming, satirical music he wrote for Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll by Karl Muck and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Muck (Victor, 2 records, $2 ea.)-Wagner made this music for Cosima's birthday when their son Siegfried was one year old. Conductor Muck plays it superbly. Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier Waltzes by Bruno Walter and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia, $2)-Manhattan's new man promises great Strauss for next year. The recording is excellent. Songs & Ballads: Love...
...Frau Cosima's declining years when she directed the festivals from her sick bed at Villa Wahnfried, the operas were poorly cast, scenery was incongruous, costumes ridiculous. Most unpardonable, the music was mechanically, often indifferently rendered. German critics stayed away from Bayreuth, spoke slightingly of it, or worse, ignored it completely...