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"Haus Wahnfried", Richard Wagner's villa in Bayreuth, 1873.
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"Haus Wahnfried", Richard Wagner's villa in Bayreuth, 1873.

Richard Wagner came to Paris in September 1891 for the Paris firstnight of his "Lohengrin". Newspapers attacked him violently for his "bad music" and for having been a German nationalist 20 years previously. Wagner's glasses and a letter to the Princess of Saxe.
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Richard Wagner came to Paris in September 1891 for the Paris firstnight of...

When Richard Wagner came to Paris for the firstnight of his opera "Lohengrin" in 1891, he played the piano at the German Embassy, the former Hotel de Beauharnais built by Napoleon's stepson, Eugene Beauharnais.
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When Richard Wagner came to Paris for the firstnight of his opera "Lohengrin"...