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“There gradually developed between them a relationship that was not without its ebb and flow. One moment she would receive an invitation to visit Hohenschwangau in the middle of winter… the next she would be told
hat she must leave Munich within 34 hours — to which she replied that she knew her rights. One moment the King would be lying passionately at her feet, the next he would forbid her to come near him...”
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hat she must leave Munich within 34 hours — to which she replied that she knew her rights. One moment the King would be lying passionately at her feet, the next he would forbid her to come near him...”
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“Ein ewiges rätsel will ich bleiben mir und anderen”
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“Wagner should have known from the Tichatschek affair that Ludwig was capable of acting with steely determination in order to have his own way. The King had set his heart on having the Rheingold production as soon as possible and was not going to allow anyone to sabotage it.”
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“By the end of Wagner’s life all this had changed. He had lifted the status of
the composer to that of a seer, raised the standard of musicianship, brought into
being a whole new school of singing and conducting, built the revolutionary
Bayreuth opera house, and created in Germany an operatic tradition that was the
admiration of the world. Furthermore the mythology which he welded together
and the ideology which he promulgated played a key role in the launching of a
new German nationalism.”
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the composer to that of a seer, raised the standard of musicianship, brought into
being a whole new school of singing and conducting, built the revolutionary
Bayreuth opera house, and created in Germany an operatic tradition that was the
admiration of the world. Furthermore the mythology which he welded together
and the ideology which he promulgated played a key role in the launching of a
new German nationalism.”
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