Richard Wagner

Henning, a recent widower fifteen years older than his bride, was the only son of Graf Harry Kurt Edward von Arnim, a German ambassador who had been exiled from Germany by Bismarck because of political...

A closer friendship formed in Leipzig was that with a young Scotsman, George Robertson , who was studying for a PhD in German literature. He reawakened Richardson's interest in books and writing, particularly when she...

EBO loved her landowner father, Baron Bódog Orczy (who regularly used the Latin and therefore international form of his given, Hungarian name: Felix),more than anyone else in the world, though he did not encourage...

Macready praised the play, but then undermined the value of his own praise, calling it a wonderful tragedy—an extraordinary tragedy for a woman to have written. Its popularity in London was such as to...

With all her busy political life and high level of publication, MAH managed to make room for life's pleasures. She mentions particularly friendship, travel, books and music: till about 1934 she was an impassioned Wagnerian

It is generally supposed that HHR 's last novel, The Young Cosima (about the woman who married composer Richard Wagner ) was weakened by the author's loss of her husband in 1933.

Remembered largely for his poetry, whose early publication provoked a major crisis in censorship, CB also wrote important prose, especially criticism, and translated Edgar Allan Poe 's stories into French. As a literary and art...

The Times carried an article by JOH , Notes on the Last Cycle at Bayreuth: a review not only of Wagner 's operatic oeuvre, but of Wagnerism as a phenomenon.

Alfred Stieglitz , the editor of Camera Work, wrote to tell GS : You have undoubtedly succeeded in expressing Matisse and Picasso in words.Writer and journalist Henri-Pierre Roché saw things differently: he...

RW establishes here two of her favourite themes: the artistic mind and the process of creation. Martin, a German composer who thinks of himself as a genius, aspires to greatness and admires Wagner . He...

HHR was deeply interested in the motivations of three people: Cosima (whom she sees as denied an outlet, by her gender, for her great natural gifts), her first husband (the all-round musician Hans von Bülow

In April 1925 WC formulated her own very high opinion of Wagner 's operas in her preface to Gertrude Hall 's The Wagnerian Romances (which she had first read in the blue air of New Mexico).

RW 's fifth novel, Dragon's Blood: Conte de Fée Deuxième, set in postwar Germany, explored, in Nietzsche an terms, the sense of loss and chaos.

DW 's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie , Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie...

She writes that the passion for Wagner among the precious and intellectually snobbish is dying out; he is less fashionable now, while Bayreuth is developing a populist, carnival aspect. Wagner snobs, she says, have been...