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...supporter, the renowned conductor Hans von Bülow. She was the daughter of the great pianist and composer Franz Liszt. A strange and rather fearsome complication ensued. Von Bülow magnanimously renounced his wife and their several children to his former friend. After an interval Richard and Cosima were married, and the fruit of their union was the present Siegfried. It was to commemorate the birth of this son that Wagner wrote his most blithesome work, Siegfried, the third of the Ring tetralogy. On the morning after the child was born, he gathered a band of musicians...
Siegfried Wagner, son of the great composer, published in Stuttgart a volume of Erinnerungen (Recollections). It is a rambling memoir, as the name implies, written by a genial, chatty man from the standpoint of one who knew the famous Richard as kind papa, and the stern Cosima as affectionate mamma...
...world's apparent indifference to the miserable plight of Frau Cosima Wagner...
...Frau Cosima Wagner-widow of the pre-eminent German musical composer, Wilhelm Richard Wagner, and daughter of Franz Liszt, of the Hungarian rhapsodies-is reduced to selling a number of her late husband's most valuable relics to keep the wolf from the door...