The Wagner Clan The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family

by Carr, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780802143990
• ISBN10: 0802143997
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-06
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

Richard Wagner was many things-composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite-and his descendants have carried on his complex legacy. In The Wagner Clan, biographer Jonathan Carr retraces the path of the composer and his descendants with the sweeping scope of one of the Master's operas. Stretching from the revolutions of 1848 to the darkest days of the Second World War and through to the present incarnation of Wagner's Bayreuth Festival, The Wagner Clan is at once the portrait of the Western world's most legendary composer, and a riveting chronicle of the ascent, decline, and rehabilitation of the German nation and its most infamous family. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Family Tree	p. xv
A Sublime but Glaucous Sea	p. 1
Revolution and Reverse	p. 9
Ugly Duckling and Swan King	p. 28
The Fortress on the Hill	p. 47
The Plastic Demon	p. 65
The Spin Doctor	p. 90
Odd Man Out	p. 111
Wolf at the Door	p. 131
Three Funerals and a New Broom	p. 153
All the Reich's a Stage	p. 172
Dissonant Quartet	p. 192
Mausi at Bay	p. 206
War - at Home and Abroad	p. 222
New Bayreuth?	p. 244
The Road Not Taken	p. 267
Sins of the Fathers	p. 285
End of Empire?	p. 306
Time Present and Time Past	p. 321
Time Future?	p. 340
Notes	p. 353
Acknowledgements	p. 373
Index	p. 375
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