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Siegfried Wagner
Siegfried Wagner (6 June 18694 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer and the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930.
Life.
Helferich Siegfried Richard Wagner, nicknamed "Fidi," was born in 1869 to Richard Wagner and his future wife Cosima (née Liszt), at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Through his mother, he was a grandson of Franz Liszt, from whom he received some instruction
on the 1998 New Zealand one-dollar performing arts postage stamp.
In the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, O'Neill was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to opera.
Recordings.
- "Distant Beloved" Beethoven Schumann Strauss Wagner (Decca) Terence Dennis
- "Father and Son - Wagner Scenes and Arias" (EMI) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Pietari Inkinen
- Wagner: Siegfried"(Halle) The Hallé, Mark Elder
- Wagner: Siegfried"(Naxos) Hong Kong Philharmonic,