The Wagner Clan The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family

Richard Wagner was many things-composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite-and his descendants have carried on his complex legacy. In The Wagner Clan, biographer Jonathan Carr retraces the path of the composer and his descendants with the sweeping scope of one of the Master's operas. Stretching from the revolutions of 1848 to the darkest days of the Second World War and through to the present incarnation of Wagner's Bayreuth Festival, The Wagner Clan is at once the portrait of the Western world's most legendary composer, and a riveting chronicle of the ascent, decline, and rehabilitation of the German nation and its most infamous family. Book jacket.