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001 2011560972
003 DLC
005 20151111153251.0
008 110302s2007 nyuacfj b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aML410.W196$bC37 2007
082 00 $a782.1092/243$aB$222
100 1 $aCarr, Jonathan,$d1942-2008.
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,$cc2007.
300 $axiv, 409 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., ports., geneal. tables ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 353-371) and index.
505 0 $aA sublime but glaucous sea -- Revolution and reverse -- Ugly duckling and swan king -- The fortress on the hill -- The plastic demon -- The spin doctor -- Odd man out -- Wolf at the door -- Three funerals and a new broom -- All the Reich's a stage -- Dissonant quartet -- Mausi at bay -- War : at home and abroad -- New Bayreuth? -- The road not taken -- Sins of the fathers -- End of empire? -- Time present and time past -- Time future?
520 $aA family saga that mirrors Germany's rise, fall, and resurrection. Richard Wagner was many things--composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite--and his descendants have carried on his complex legacy. Here, biographer Jonathan Carr retraces the path of the renowned composer and his descendants, showing how its history and that of Europe are intertwined. Along the way, Carr offers glimpses of Franz Liszt (whose illegitimate daughter Cosima married Wagner); Friedrich Nietzsche; Arthur Schopenhauer; Alberto Toscanini; Joseph Goebbels; Hermann Göring; and Adolf Hitler, a passionate fan of the Master's music and an adopted uncle to Wagner's grandchildren. All through the war the Bayreuth Festival, begun by the Master himself, was supported by Hitler, who had to fill out the meager audience with fighting men and SS officers. After the war, the festival was dark for a decade until Wagner's offspring--with characteristic ambition and cunning--revived it.--From publisher description.
600 30 $aWagner family.
600 10 $aWagner, Richard,$d1813-1883.
600 10 $aWagner, Richard,$d1813-1883$xFamily.
600 10 $aWagner, Cosima,$d1837-1930.
600 10 $aWagner, Siegfried,$d1869-1930.
600 10 $aWagner, Winifred.
600 10 $aWagner, Wolfgang,$d1919-2010.
611 20 $aBayreuther Festspiele$xHistory.
651 0 $aGermany$vBiography.
600 37 $aWagner family.$2sears
600 17 $aWagner, Richard,$d1813-1883$xFamily.$2sears
651 7 $aGermany$vBiography.$2sears
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2011560972-d.html