Siegfried Wagner Footage

www.wagneropera... Footage showing Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930)

[@wmialil]

I have just found a 78 - Siegfried Wagner conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing the Siegfried Idyll. It is on three sides. Recorded in the 1920s I imagine. An interesting combination so soon after the First War.

[@Skidoo22]

I wonder if he saw Mahler conduct? Anyone know

[@mediolanumhibernicus3353]

Very likely. Mahler died in 1911

[@SilviusLeopoldWeiss]

A lipreader could tell, what this man is saying

[@1495dja]

Actually, what I heard was the Siegfried tried to dissociate himself from Hitler and the Nazis, despite his wife's fondness for them- He was also the first person to allow Jewish people both to work at and to attend Bayreuth. It seems he had several Jewish friends too- if one studies any of his operas one will find an incredibly strong anti-fascist presence including at the end of "Der Friedensengel" a chorus of angels proclaiming we must live by "peace, freedom, love and good"

[@semsemeini7905]

With his British wife who was big friend of Adolf Hitler who she called Wolfie.

[@robcat2075]

You won't find much. He's not a figure of great historical interest. But i think it's safe to say that Nazis were rather after his time and not during.

[@TheVisualMusicShow]

Pointreys6, he knew Mahler, of course, and everybody else of that generation !

[@benschroth7717]

FIDI!!!!

[@robcat2075]

I don't know about him being the first to let Jews buy tickets to Bayreuth, but his father beat him to it on letting them work there, since he hired Hermann Levi to conduct there, even premiering Parsifal.

[@semsemeini7905]

They also hired Max Lorenz; famous opera singer after he passed away. Max was gay with a Jewish wife. Hitler / Goebbels protected him.