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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, over the course of his life, produced a huge amount of written material analyzing every aspect of himself, including his operas and his views on Jews (as well as many other topics); these purportedly 'Jewish' characterizations are never mentioned, nor are there any such references in Cosima Wagner's copious diaries.
This is despite the fact that Wagner, in dictating to Cosima, had watered down some of his past, particularly his love life and his involvement in the 1849 Revolution in Dresden. [5] An extra copy of volumes 1 to 3 struck off by the Basel printer was acquired by the American collector Mrs. Burrell in 1892, and she was so surprised by what she ...
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 ...
Later in life, in the course of preparing his autobiography, Mein Leben, Wagner received from his sister Cäcilie a cache of letters written by Geyer that led him to believe that Geyer was his biological father, and possibly (and incorrectly) to believe that Geyer was Jewish; [4] the correspondence was subsequently lost or, some have suggested ...
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.