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Portrait by Franz von Lenbach, 1879. Francesca Gaetana Cosima Wagner (née Liszt; 24 December 1837 – 1 April 1930) was the daughter of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt and Franco-German romantic author Marie d'Agoult.
Franz Liszt [n 1] (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.
Princess Carolyne was a fervent Roman Catholic, but separated from her husband after only a few years of marriage. In 1844 her father died, leaving her a fortune. [5] On 2 February 1847 (), while on a business trip to Kyiv, she attended a piano recital by Franz Liszt during his third tour of the Russian Empire, at the peak of his international celebrity. [6]
∞ 1900 Franz Beidler (1872–1930), music director Franz Wilhelm Beidler (1901–1981) Eva von Bülow (1867–1942) ∞ 1908 Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), author; Siegfried Wagner (1869–1930), composer, conductor and stage director ∞ 1915 Winifred Marjorie Williams (1897–1980), adopted daughter of the pianist Karl Klindworth
Alongside Carl Tausig, Bülow was perhaps the most prominent of the early students of the Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor Franz Liszt; he gave the first public performance of Liszt's Sonata in B minor in 1857. He became acquainted with, fell in love with and eventually married Liszt's daughter Cosima, who later
Liszt is a Hungarian surname that means 'flour'. Notable people with the surname include: Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Hungarian composer and pianist Adam Liszt (1776–1827), father of composer and pianist Franz Liszt; Anna Liszt (1788–1866), mother of Franz Liszt; Cosima Liszt (1837–1930), daughter of Franz Liszt and later the wife of ...
Marie was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, [2] with the full name of Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, the daughter of Alexandre Victor François, Vicomte de Flavigny (1770–1819), a footloose émigré French aristocrat, and his wife Maria Elisabeth Bethmann (1772–1847), whose father was the German merchant and banker Johann Philipp Bethmann (1715–1793).
Cosima Wagner daughter of Franz Liszt. Wife of Hans von Bülow, she left von Bülow for composer Richard Wagner. Dietrich Heinrich von Bülow (1757–1807), a.k.a. Heinrich Dietrich Bülow, Prussian officer during the Napoleonic Wars, military theorist, and brother of Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow