Cosima Wagner

WARNING

You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com

The Lady of Bayreuth

Oliver Hilmes; Translated by Stewart Spencer
View Inside Format: Paper
Price: $34.00
YUP
Add to Cart Add to Cart

Please select your location:

Can not distribute to selected Country

 

Digital Products

One-Year, Individual Subscriptions

  • Use this form to buy individual subscriptions to HUP digital products.
  • Upon completion of your order, you will immediately receive an email confirmation.
  • Within 2–3 business days from the completion of your order, you will receive a follow-up email with account setup details for the digital product(s) you purchased.
  • To order a gift subscription, simply place a regular order using your own contact information. Once you receive the email with account setup details you can forward that message directly to the gift recipient, or share the information in whatever manner you prefer.
  • Orders will be billed by our distributor, Triliteral, LLC.
  • For billing inquiries, please contact Triliteral directly:

    Triliteral LLC, 100 Maple Ridge Drive, Cumberland, RI 02864, USA
    Tel: (800) 405-1619 | (401) 531-2800
    Fax: (800) 406-9145 | (401) 531-2801
    Email:

  • For inquiries about account access (after you have received your initial account setup email, or if you have not received such an email within 2–3 business days after completion of your order), please contact .
  • For information about institutional sales: daredictionary.com | loebclassics.com
Our shopping cart only supports Mozilla Firefox. Please ensure you're using that browser before attempting to purchase.

Also Available in:
Cloth

Description Reviews Awards
 

An enthralling new biography of the woman behind Bayreuth

In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner—illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Richard Wagner. After Wagner’s death in 1883 Cosima played a crucial role in the promulgation and politicization of his works, assuming control of the Bayreuth Festival and transforming it into a shrine to German nationalism. The High Priestess of the Wagnerian cult, Cosima lived on for almost fifty years, crafting the image of Richard Wagner through her organizational ability and ideological tenacity.

The first book to make use of the available documentation at Bayreuth, this biography explores the achievements of this remarkable and obsessive woman while illuminating a still-hidden chapter of European cultural history.

Oliver Hilmes is the author of Cosima's Kinder, a study of the Wagner dynasty, and a best-selling biography of Alma Mahler. Stewart Spencer is an acclaimed translator and editor (with Barry Millington) of Wagner in Performance.
ISBN: 9780300170900
Publication Date: May 24, 2011
400 pages, 6 x 9
30 b/w illus.
Also of Interest More from this Author
 
The Great Agnostic

Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

Susan Jacoby

View details
Max Eastman

A Life

Christoph Irmscher

View details
Louisa Catherine

The Other Mrs. Adams

Margery M. Heffron; Edited by David L. Michelmore

View details
Rav Kook

Mystic in a Time of Revolution

Yehudah Mirsky

View details
Passions

Giacomo Leopardi; Translated by Tim Parks

View details
John Keats

A New Life

Nicholas Roe

View details