The Swan King Ludwig II of Bavaria
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London
I.B. Tauris
2012
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| Ausgabe: | New rev. ed |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Dedication Page; Preface to the 2012 Edition; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The Northern Apollo Reborn; 2. The Captive Years; 3. From Cage to Throne; 4. The Coming of the Friend; 5. The Second Lola; 6. A Triumph, an Idyll and a Parting; 7. Germany in Turmoil; 8. Sophie; 9. Lilla ... and Others; 10. Wagnerian Strains; 11. A Crucial Decade: 1866-76; 12. Fantasies in Stone; 13. Dreams of El Dorado; 14. Ludwig II and the Theatre; 15. Forbidden Longings; 16. Farewell to Wagner; 17. The Twilight Years
- 18. The Trap Closes19. Prophecies Fulfilled; Epilogue: The Cult of the Swan King; Appendix: Monetary Values; Notes; Select Bibliography
- The Swan King is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the nineteenth_x000D_century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'. A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered both for his patronage of Richard Wagner and for the fabulous palaces that he created as part of a dream-world to escape the responsibilities of state. In the realization of his fantasies, he created a ferment of creativity among artists and craftsmen, while his neglect of Bavaria's political interests made powerful ene