Word: wesendonck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...19th Century it turned up in the collection of one J. Thos. Stanley, Palmerston House, Turnbridge-by-Sheffield. A generation later it was hanging on the Bavarian walls of Otto Wesendonck, husband of Richard Wagner's greatest love, Matilde Wesendonck...
...play opens and closes in 1858. Its title is something of a misnomer since Wagner's exile dates from 1849, when he fled Dresden after getting mixed up in revolutionary politics. In 1858 the musician and his wife Minna (Evelyn Varden) are under the patronage of Otto Wesendonck (Leo G. Carroll) at Zurich. With Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre behind him, Wagner has finished the libretto of Tristan und Isolde, is working on the music, under the inspiration of Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores...
Everyone knows now that great Richard Wagner was a selfish, mercenary person who used everyone, lived on the bounty of Otto Wesendonck while philandering with his wife, borrowed money right & left always with the air of conferring a favor. Wagner made Germany pay heavily for the honor of fatherlanding himself and his operas. No other composer has ever lived to see a theatre existing solely for the production of his own works. But not until last week did it become known that Wagner had offered himself to the U. S. for a million dollars...
...high-handed daughter of Composer Franz Liszt, once the wife of Composer Hans von Bulow. It was while married to von Bulow that she met Richard Wagner, himself married to an exactress, Minna Planer. Minna had shared Wagner's poverty, put up with his adulteries, including the Mathilde Wesendonck affair which supposedly inspired Tristan und Isolde. But Wagner left Minna to live with Cosima, 25 years his junior. She bore him three children-before he married her, took her to live at the Villa Wahnfried provided at Bayreuth by Mad King Ludwig who also loved...