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The surname Wagner is derived from the Germanic surname Waganari, meaning ' wagonmaker ' or ' wagon driver. ' The surname is German but is also well-established in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, eastern Europe, and elsewhere as well as in all German-speaking countries, and among Ashkenazi Jews .
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild.
Wagner's birthplace, at 3, the Brühl, Leipzig Richard Wagner was born on 22 May 1813 to an ethnic German family in Leipzig, then part of the Confederation of the Rhine.His family lived at No 3, the Brühl (The House of the Red and White Lions) in Leipzig's Jewish quarter.
Wagner's father died of typhus six months after Richard's birth, by which time Wagner's mother was living with the actor and playwright Ludwig Geyer in the Brühl, at that time the Jewish quarter of Leipzig. Johanna and Geyer married in August 1814, and for the first 14 years of his life, Wagner was known as Wilhelm Richard Geyer.
However, Wagner and Cosima had already determined to print a few copies for private circulation. The first volume was printed in 1870 in an edition of fifteen. Volumes 2 and 3 were printed in 1872 and 1875, in editions of eighteen copies. Wagner recruited the young Friedrich Nietzsche to act as proof-reader and to see the book through a press ...
Rayner, Robert M.: Wagner and 'Die Meistersinger', Oxford University Press, New York, 1940. An account of the origins, creation and meaning of the opera. Dieter Schickling, »Schlank und wirkungsvoll«. Giacomo Puccini und die italienische Erstaufführung der »Meistersinger von Nürnberg«, in: Musik & Ästhetik 4/2000, pp. 90–101.
Wagner objected on the grounds of Levi's Jewish faith; Parsifal, he maintained, was a "Christian" opera. [88] Both he and Cosima were vehement anti-Semites; Hilmes conjectures that Cosima inherited this in her youth, from her father, from Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, probably from Madame Patersi and, a little later, from Bülow, "an anti ...
Title page of the second edition of Das Judenthum in der Musik, published in 1869 "Das Judenthum in der Musik" (German for Judaism in Music, but perhaps more accurately understood in contemporary language as Jewishness in Music), [1] is an antisemitic essay by composer Richard Wagner which criticizes the influence of Jews and their "essence" on European art music, arguing that they have not ...