Minna Wagner - A Life, with Richard Wagner

This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner's wife of 30 years, reveals her as an artist who was vital to her husband's creative life.

List of contents

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Abbreviations
Notes on this translation
Introduction: "He could not breathe without her"
Chapter 1. "I have become her despot": From Love to Marriage
Chapter 2. "Deprived of incipient motherhood": Riga, London, Paris, 1836-1842
Chapter 3. "Home for me is you alone": Dresden 1842-1847
Chapter 4. "My knucklehead of a husband": Revolution and Its Aftermath, 1848-1850
Chapter 5. "This ridiculous, amorous intrigue": The Jessie Laussot Affair, 1850-1851
Chapter 6. "That good, foolish man...": Exile in Zurich, 1852-1854
Chapter 7. "I'm a poor, stupid woman to have let you go...": Zurich and London, 1854-1856
Chapter 8. "Alas, now all our happiness is gone...": The Wesendonck Scandal, 1857-1858
Chapter 9. The Bitter End: 1858-1859
Chapter 10. "In love and fidelity, your Emma": Emma Herwegh
Chapter 11. "...neither wife, housekeeper, nor friend": Dresden, Paris, Biebrich, 1860-1862
Chapter 12. "That weak, blind man...": The end of a marriage, 1863-1866
References
Index

About the author

Eva Rieger

Summary

This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner's wife of 30 years, reveals her as an artist who was vital to her husband's creative life.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Rieger, Professor Dr Eva Rieger
• Assisted by: Chris Walton (Translation)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2024
• EAN: 9781648250477
• ISBN: 978-1-64825-047-7
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Illustrations: 28 b/w illus.
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history