Word: cosima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attracted as many as 1,800 people at a time. Once a year, $10,000 or so was raised with a concert for the Bagby Music Lovers Foundation, which gave a lift to indigent artists. Among its beneficiaries: Minnie Hauk, the first Carmen in the U. S.; Frau Richard (Cosima Liszt) Wagner, whom Morris Bagby had known in Europe; Baritone Antonio Scotti, onetime bon vivant...
...Germany, every crop-haired infant Siegfried, every pig-tailed little Brünnhilde counts Richard Wagner one of Nazidom's special heroes. Composer Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and goddesses in his Ring of the Nibelungs; he and his wife Cosima were also openly antiSemitic, believed and spread the racial nonsense preached by Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Yet Wagner himself was perhaps what Nazis call non-Aryan. He may have been the son of a supposedly part-Jewish actor named Ludwig Geyer. Last week this old contention, long pishtushed by German Wagnerites...
...years before the No. 1 Nazi became Chancellor, Music Lover Adolf Hitler first met the family of his favorite composer. Widow Cosima would have none of him, but Hitler struck up a friendship with English-born Daughter-in-Law Winifred Wagner. Aged five at this time was Granddaughter Friedelind. She was dandled on Herr Hitler's knee while rumor that he was going to marry her mother rose but finally ebbed. When about the age of a U. S. debutante, Friedelind, by her own account, used to lunch now & then with the Führer and chirp all sorts...