Word: wesendonck
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...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...
...Though her once sharp eyes are filmed with age, her aristocratic nose appears to be more pointed than ever. She attends rehearsals, but no one is allowed to speak to her. A performance of Tristan was scheduled. She vetoed it. It was cancelled. She is still jealous of Mathilde Wesendonck, the composer's inspiration for the figure of love-sick Isolde...