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Siegfried Wagner

Siegfried Wagner (6 June 1869 - 4 August 1930) was the son of Richard Wagner and Cosima von Bülow and the grandson of Franz Liszt. He was a very productive opera composer, composing more operas than his father. In 1896 he started conducting at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and around Germany. Siegfried was the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. Though his works are numerous, none has entered the standard repertory.

On 22 September 1915, he married Winifred Williams Klindworth. They had four children:

1. Wieland (1917-1966)
2. Friedelinde (1918-8 May 1991)
3. Wolfgang (born 1919)
4. Verena (born 1920)

Though "Fidi", as Siegfried was known, was bisexual and preferred the company of men, he did have an illegitimate son, Walter Aign, by a pastor's daughter. While Siegried was alive, Walter was employed as a repetiteur at the Festspielhaus; after his death, when Winifred Wagner took control, she had him fired.

Operas of Siegfried Wagner:

1. Der Bärenhäuter (1898)
2. Herzog Wildfang (1900)
3. Der Kobold (1903)
4. Bruder Lustig (1904)
5. Sternengebot (1906)
6. Banadietrich (1909)
7. Schwarzschwanenreich (1910)
8. Sonnenflammen (1912)
9. Der Heidenkönig (1913)
10. Der Friedensengel (1914)
11. An allem ist Hütchen schuld! (1915)
12. Das Liebesopfer (1917)
13. Der Schmied von Marienburg (1920)
14. Rainulf und Adelasia (1922)
15. Die heilige Linde (1927)
16. Wahnopfer (1928)
17. Walamund (1928-29)
18. Wernhart (1929)
19. Das Flüchlein, das Jeder mitbekam (1929)