Word: cosima
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Such devotion was a bulwark for both of them against an ungrateful world. Old Liszt swooped down occasionally to inflame Cosima's feelings of guilt. Nietzsche betrayed the cause with attacks on Wagnerian aesthetics. King Ludwig offered ardent support one moment and retreated into incipient madness the next; reports reached the Wagners that he went in and out of his palaces only by the windows and once ordered dinner for twelve, then sat down alone after bowing to the empty seats. Weary and overextended, Wagner toyed with emigrating to the U.S. on the condition that the American faithful would...
Skelton, the British translator of Cosima Wagner's Diaries, recounts all this with grace and a perhaps too benign indulgence. Since his story leaves off before Cosima's long widowhood (she died in 1930, at 93), he does not have to confront her in the decades when she reigned implacably over Bayreuth. He cites ample evidence of Wagner's more monstrous traits, which Cosima shared or abetted: egomania, antiSemitism, a devouring exploitativeness. Yet Skelton seems to take his tone from a remark of Cosima's, when the abandoned Bülow told her he forgave...
...sorry bank account. They were married and had two children, Princess Annie-Laurie, now 23, and Prince Alexander, 22. But happy-ever-after lasted fewer than eight years. The couple were divorced in 1965, and by the next year, Sunny was married to Claus. They have a daughter, Cosima...