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Minna Wagner Ernst Benedikt Kietz: Minna Wagner, drawing, 1840. Nationalarchiv der Richard- Wagner-Stiftung, Bayreuth. The University of Rochester Press gratefully acknowledges support from the Mariann Steegmann Foundation. Translation copyright © 2022 Chris Walton All rights reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. First published 2022 Original German-language edition: Eva Rieger, Minna und Richard Wagner: Stationen einer Liebe © Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2., überarbeitete Auflage Hildesheim 2019, Germany. University of Rochester Press 668 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA www.urpress.com and Boydell & Brewer Limited PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK www.boydellandbrewer.com ISBN-13: 978-1-64825-045-3 (hardback) ISBN-13: 978-1-80010-607-9 (ePDF) ISSN: 1071-9989 ; v. 185 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Rieger, Eva, author. | Walton, Chris, 1963– translator. Title: Minna Wagner: a life, with Richard Wagner / Eva Rieger; translated by Chris Walton. Other titles: Minna und Richard Wagner. English Description: Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2022. | Series: Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989; 185 | Includes bibliographical references and index Identifiers: LCCN 2022002074 (print) | LCCN 2022002075 (ebook) | ISBN 9781648250453 (hardback) | ISBN 9781800106079 (ebook other) | ISBN 9781800106086 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883—Marriage. | Wagner, Minna, 1809– 1866—Marriage. | Composers—Germany—Biography. | Composers’ spouses— Germany—Biography. Classification: LCC ML410.W11 R5413 2022 (print) | LCC ML410.W11 (ebook) | DDC 782.1092/2 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022002074 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022002075 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Cover image: Karl Alexander Otterstedt: Minna Wagner, oil painting. Nationalarchiv der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung, Bayreuth | Design: Toni Michelle Contents Illustrations vii Abbreviations ix Notes on this Translation xi Introduction: “He could not breathe without her” 1 1 “I have become her despot”: From Love to Marriage 12 2 “Deprived of incipient motherhood”: Riga, London, Paris, 1836–42 38 3 “Home for me is you alone”: Dresden 1842–47 70 4 “My knucklehead of a husband”: Revolution and Its Aftermath, 1848–50 99 5 “This ridiculous, amorous intrigue”: The Jessie Laussot Affair, 1850–51 127 6 “That good, foolish man …”: Exile in Zurich, 1852–54 155 7 “I’m a poor, stupid woman to have let you go …”: Zurich and London, 1854–56 186 8 “Alas, now all our happiness is gone …”: The Wesendonck Scandal, 1857–58 212 9 The Bitter End, 1858–59 246 10 “In love and fidelity, your Emma”: Emma Herwegh 272 11 “Neither wife, housekeeper, nor friend”: Dresden, Paris, Biebrich, 1860–62 289 12 “That weak, blind man …”: The End of a Marriage, 1863–66 318 References 347 Index 353 Illustrations Frontispiece. Ernst Benedikt Kietz: Minna Wagner, drawing, 1840. ii 1.1 Richard Wagner, silhouette, 1835. 23 1.2 Marriage announcement of Richard Wagner and Minna Planer. 34 2.1 Ernst Benedikt Kietz: Wagners Land und Luftsitz (Wagner’s Air and Country Seat). 55 2.2 Ernst Benedikt Kietz: Minna zügelt Wagner in der Kutsche (Minna harnesses Wagner in the Carriage). 61 2.3 Richard Wagner: apologetic poem and drawing for Minna, 1841. 63 3.1 Ernst Benedikt Kietz: Richard Wagner, drawing, 1842. 83 3.2 Franz Hanfstaengl: Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, lithograph. 87 3.3 August Röckel, Wagner’s colleague and fellow revolutionary in Dresden. 93 3.4 Gottfried Semper: architect, revolutionary, and Wagner’s friend in Dresden and Zurich. 94 4.1 The Court Theater in Dresden, ca. 1840. 101 4.2 Henri Lehmann: Franz Liszt. 104 4.3 The Escherhäuser on the Zeltweg in Zurich. 122 5.1 Jessie Laussot, at an advanced age. 129 5.2 Franz Hegi / Salomon Brunner: The Albisbrunn Water Institute, ca. 1845. 149 6.1 Clementine Stockar-Escher: Minna Wagner with Peps the dog, watercolor, Zurich, 1853. 159 6.2 The Zurich Municipal Theater, ca. 1840. 171 6.3 Theodor Uhlig, relief. 184 viii illustrations ❧ 8.1 The “Asyl” where Minna and Richard lived in Zurich, 1857–58. 213 8.2 Mathilde Wesendonck, ca. 1850. Wille Archive, Mariafeld. 216 8.3 Cosima von Bülow, photograph by Louis Held, Weimar, 1857. 219 8.4 The Brestenberg Spa, mid-19th century. 239 9.1 Minna Wagner in Paris, 1859. Nationalarchiv der Richard- Wagner-Stiftung, Bayreuth. 257 10.1 Friederike Miethe: Emma Herwegh as an Amazon. Dichter- und Stadtmuseum Liestal. 274 11.1 Clara Wolfram, Richard Wagner’s sister. 312 12.1 Mathilde Maier, photograph by Wilhelm Rudolph. 320 12.2 Anton Pusinelli and his wife, photograph by Ch. Hahn, Dresden, 1871. 325 12.3 Cosima and Richard Wagner, photograph by Fritz Luckhardt, 1872. 331 Abbreviations BB Richard Wagner. Das braune Buch. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen 1865– 1882. Edited by Joachim Bergfeld, first published 1975. Munich and Zurich: Atlantis Musikbuch Verlag, 1988. Burrell Richard Wagner. Letters of Richard Wagner. The Burrell Collection. Edited by John N. Burk. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951. CWT Cosima Wagner. Die Tagebücher. Edited by Martin Gregor-Dellin and Dietrich Mack. 2 vols. Munich and Zurich: Piper, 1976–77. ML Richard Wagner. My Life. Translated by Andrew Gray, edited by Mary Whittall, first published 1983. Cambridge, New York etc.: Cambridge University Press, 2009. RWA Richard Wagner Archive, Nationalarchiv der Richard-Wagner- Stiftung, Bayreuth. SB Richard Wagner. Sämtliche Briefe. 26– vols. Vols. 1–9 edited by Hans- Joachim Bauer, Klaus Burmeister, Johannes Forner, Gertrud Strobel, and Werner Wolf. Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1967–2000. Vols. 10–25 and 27 edited by Martin Dürrer, Margret Jestremski, Isabel Kraft, Andreas Mielke, and Angela Steinsiek. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1999–. SSD Richard Wagner. Sämtliche Schriften und Dichtungen. 6th edition (Volksausgabe). 16 vols. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1911].

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