Word: cosima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other irons in the fire. Immediately on his arrival in Munich he asked that his close friend, Conductor Hans von Bülow, be brought from Berlin to conduct Tristan. While he valued Von Bülow's talents, he was even more anxious to secure those of Cosima, the conductor's wife (and daughter of Composer Franz Liszt), who had been Wagner's secret mistress for a year...
...Artillery. When, at last, Tristan had its debut, the audience unexpectedly gave it a thunderous ovation, and Ludwig wrote in his diary: "Wagner, thou only one, holy one. How delightful. Oh, how complete." Then, suddenly Wagner's affair with Cosima was exposed. In a jealous rage, Ludwig banished the composer from the capital...