Word: cosima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Siegfried Wagner last month followed his mother Frau Cosima (TIME, April 14) to a lingering death (TIME, Aug. 11) opera lovers all over the world wondered anxiously on whose shoulders would fall direction of Bayreuth's Wagner festivals. To his widow Siegfried willed complete musical, artistic, and financial charge. But Widow Wagner has a young family to rear. A strong man was needed, a genius to bring back the glory to Bayreuth...
...wings a substitute tenor (Lauritz Melchior) fidgeted, waiting to take over the title-role should sick Tenor Sigmund Pilinsky collapse. On the dais, the back of Conductor Arturo Toscanini's mind held worry for his wife, in the hospital all week with a broken leg. Frau Cosima was dead. Son Siegfried had pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended...
...Siegfried Wagner, 60, collapsed, developed pneumonia, after weeks of hard work preparing for this summer's festival at Bayreuth of his late, great father's operas. The festival this year is also in honor of Siegfried Wagner's mother, the late Frau Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt (TIME, April...
...Cosima's Reward...
...Died. Cosima Wagner, 92, relict of composer Richard Wagner (Die Meistersinger, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Parsifal), daughter of Composer Franz Liszt; of old age; at Bayreuth, Germany, locus of Wagnerian Festivals...