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100 1 $aCarr, Jonathan,$d1942-2008.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84191549
245 14 $aThe Wagner clan :$bthe saga of Germany's most illustrious and infamous family /$cJonathan Carr.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press ;$a[Berkeley, Calif.] :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axiv, 409 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 353-371) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tA Sublime but Glaucous Sea -- $g2.$tRevolution and Reverse -- $g3.$tUgly Duckling and Swan King -- $g4.$tThe Fortress on the Hill -- $g5.$tThe Plastic Demon -- $g6.$tThe Spin Doctor -- $g7.$tOdd Man Out -- $g8.$tWolf at the Door -- $g9.$tThree Funerals and a New Broom -- $g10.$tAll the Reich's a Stage -- $g11.$tDissonant Quartet -- $g12.$tMausi at Bay -- $g13.$tWar - at Home and Abroad -- $g14.$tNew Bayreuth? -- $g15.$tThe Road Not Taken -- $g16.$tSins of the Fathers -- $g17.$tEnd of Empire? -- $g18.$tTime Present and Time Past -- $g19.$tTime Future?
520 1 $a"Richard Wagner was many things - composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite - and his descendants have carried on his complex legacy. Now, in The Wagner Clan, biographer Jonathan Carr retraces the path of the composer and his descendants with great verve. Along the way, Carr offers glimpses of Franz Liszt (whose illegitimate daughter, Cosima, became Wagner's wife); the "mad king" Ludwig II, who saved Wagner from penury by becoming his sponsor; Friedrich Nietzsche; Arthur Schopenhauer; Richard Strauss; Gustav Mahler; Alberto Toscanini; Joseph Goebbels; Hermann Goring; and the "Wolf" himself, Adolf Hitler, a passionate fan of the Master's music and close family friend who often dropped by their villa unannounced to regale Wagner's grandchildren with outlandish bedtime stories. Wagner's British-born daughter-in-law, Winifred, was a close friend of Hitler's - he is rumored to have penned Mein Kampf on stationary she delivered to him in prison - and seemed momentarily positioned to marry him after the death of her husband. All through the war the Bayreuth Festival, begun by the Master himself, was supported by Hitler, who filled the theater with his fighting men and SS officers. After the war's devastation, the festival was dark for a decade until Wagner's offspring - with characteristic ambition and cunning - revived it." "With the sweeping scope of a Wagnerian opera, The Wagner Clan stretches from the revolutions of 1848 to today, showing how the history of Europe and that of the Wagners are inextricably intertwined. Jonathan Carr has drawn on extensive interviews with members of the family and on rare archival material to deliver a riveting chronicle of the ascent, decline, and rehabilitation of the German nation and its most infamous family."--BOOK JACKET.
600 30 $aWagner family.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85144802
600 10 $aWagner, Richard,$d1813-1883.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089831
600 10 $aWagner, Cosima,$d1837-1930.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50021342
600 10 $aWagner, Siegfried,$d1869-1930.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82078407
600 10 $aWagner, Winifred.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr89004883
600 10 $aWagner, Wolfgang,$d1919-2010.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87903642
611 20 $aBayreuther Festspiele$xHistory.
651 0 $aGermany$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115144
852 00 $bbar$hDD85$i.C37 2007