Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Simple Life, famed book by Charles Wagner, was, in the current catchpenny philosophy, the complement of Theodore Roosevelt's doctrine of "the strenuous life...
...Story of romanticism in European music, of solo piano concerts, of pianists who exploit brilliant personalities for their art's sake, begins with the father-in-law and in-opera of Richard Wagner, the inventor of the symphonic poem, the demon-angel of European music for 60 years, Franz Liszt,* artist, lover, Franciscan monk...
Died. Houston Stewart Chamberlain, 72, famed Germanophile, husband of Richard Wagner's daughter Eva; in Bayreuth. Son of the late British Rear Admiral W. C. Chamberlain, and nephew of the late Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, he was naturalized a German 1916, following decoration by the Kaiser for a book glorifying Germany...
...geniuses and the "almost" weighed too heavily upon them, imbued as they were with the subjective psychology of the movement in which they lived. Certainly they are not very pleasant reading, but they exercised an influence which affected the whole movement of at least German literature up to Richard Wagner...
...pioneered. With Gustav Schirmer, son of the publisher, he built a miniature stage, painted Rhine Valley scenery, peopled it with marionettes. The stage was set in the Damrosch parlor. While Gustav manipulated the Rhine maidens, Walter played the music on the piano. Thus was Richard Wagner's Rheingold produced for the first time in the U. S., (before the Schirmer and Damrosch families, admission 50c). Nine years later, Leopold Damrosch, noted German conductor, died. Walter succeeded his father as conductor of the New York Symphony, the Oratorio Society, the Metropolitan Opera, at the age of 23. He immediately executed...