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The Wagner Clan.(Brief article)(Book review)
A hundred and twenty-five years after Richard Wagner's death, his descendants still control the annual festival he founded to stage his works. In this engaging group biography, Carr casts the Wagner family business as a "matchless mirror" of the social and political history of Germany itself. The festival may have become the "flagship" of German culture, thanks in part to the patronage of ...
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