Minna Wagner
A Life, with Richard Wagner
1st Edition
Published on 19. July 2022
320 pages
978-1-80010-607-9 (ISBN)
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This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner's wife of 30 years, reveals her as a self-assured woman and artist who was vital to her husband's creative life.
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Rieger Eva:
EVA RIEGER is professor emeritus in historical musicology at the University of Bremen.Walton Chris:
Chris Walton studied at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Zurich and Munich. He was head of the Music Department of the Zentralbibliothek
Zürich for ten years before being appointed chair of music at the University of Pretoria. He moved back to Switzerland in 2008 and lives today in
Solothurn. He is an Honorary Professor at Africa Open Institute (Stellenbosch University) and runs two research projects at the Bern University of the Arts for the Swiss National Science Foundation. He has published widely on Austro-German and Swiss music.
EVA RIEGER is professor emeritus in historical musicology at the University of Bremen.Walton Chris:
Chris Walton studied at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Zurich and Munich. He was head of the Music Department of the Zentralbibliothek
Zürich for ten years before being appointed chair of music at the University of Pretoria. He moved back to Switzerland in 2008 and lives today in
Solothurn. He is an Honorary Professor at Africa Open Institute (Stellenbosch University) and runs two research projects at the Bern University of the Arts for the Swiss National Science Foundation. He has published widely on Austro-German and Swiss music.
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Notes on this translation
Introduction: "He could not breathe without her"
Chapter 1. "I have become her despot": From Love to Marriage
Chapter 2. "Deprived of incipient motherhood": Riga, London, Paris, 1836-1842
Chapter 3. "Home for me is you alone": Dresden 1842-1847
Chapter 4. "My knucklehead of a husband": Revolution and Its Aftermath, 1848-1850
Chapter 5. "This ridiculous, amorous intrigue": The Jessie Laussot Affair, 1850-1851
Chapter 6. "That good, foolish man.": Exile in Zurich, 1852-1854
Chapter 7. "I'm a poor, stupid woman to have let you go.": Zurich and London, 1854-1856
Chapter 8. "Alas, now all our happiness is gone.": The Wesendonck Scandal, 1857-1858
Chapter 9. The Bitter End: 1858-1859
Chapter 10. "In love and fidelity, your Emma": Emma Herwegh
Chapter 11. ".neither wife, housekeeper, nor friend": Dresden, Paris, Biebrich, 1860-1862
Chapter 12. "That weak, blind man.": The end of a marriage, 1863-1866
References
Index
Abbreviations
Notes on this translation
Introduction: "He could not breathe without her"
Chapter 1. "I have become her despot": From Love to Marriage
Chapter 2. "Deprived of incipient motherhood": Riga, London, Paris, 1836-1842
Chapter 3. "Home for me is you alone": Dresden 1842-1847
Chapter 4. "My knucklehead of a husband": Revolution and Its Aftermath, 1848-1850
Chapter 5. "This ridiculous, amorous intrigue": The Jessie Laussot Affair, 1850-1851
Chapter 6. "That good, foolish man.": Exile in Zurich, 1852-1854
Chapter 7. "I'm a poor, stupid woman to have let you go.": Zurich and London, 1854-1856
Chapter 8. "Alas, now all our happiness is gone.": The Wesendonck Scandal, 1857-1858
Chapter 9. The Bitter End: 1858-1859
Chapter 10. "In love and fidelity, your Emma": Emma Herwegh
Chapter 11. ".neither wife, housekeeper, nor friend": Dresden, Paris, Biebrich, 1860-1862
Chapter 12. "That weak, blind man.": The end of a marriage, 1863-1866
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