Daniela von Bülow

Baroness Daniela von Bülow (12 October 1860 – 28 July 1940), nicknamed Loulou or Lusch , was a German pianist and costume designer.[1]

Richard Wagner with his family and family friends Heinrich von Stein (left) and Paul von Joukowsky (right) in front of Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth. Daniela von Bülow is in the center, standing. Photograph dated August 23, 1881

Biography

Born as Daniela Senta von Bülow Liszt on 12 October 1860 in Berlin, Germany, Daniela von Bülow was the first daughter of the conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow, and Cosima Liszt. She was named after Cosima's brother, Daniel Liszt, who “had tragically died of consumption in1859”.[2] She was the step-daughter of Richard Wagner , German composer, and the granddaughter of Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher. [3] She was a “fine pianist” in her own right, who had been trained primarily by her mother but also coached by Wagner.[4]

After her parents' divorce in 1870, she stayed with her mother Cosima, who married Wagner in the same year.[5][1] Since then she lived first in Tribschen, then in Bayreuth. In the 1880s she accompanied Wagner to Italy, where she met Henry Thode, an art historian, poet and translator who was the director of Stadelsches Institut, Frankfurt.[6] She married Henry Thode on 3 July 1886 and lived with him until her return to Bayreuth in 1914 after their divorce.[7]

She worked as a costume designer at the Bayreuth Festival, an annual musical event.[8]

She published the letters of Hans Von Bülow, among others. She was an early supporter of National Socialism and joined the National Socialist Party.

She died in Bayreuth on 28 July 1940.

References
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  2. Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1999). The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The last years, 1857-1864. Vancouver, British Columbia: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-838-63845-3. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  3. Woodhouse, John Robert (2001). Gabriele D'Annunzio: Defiant Archangel. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 355. ISBN 978-0-198-18763-9. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  4. Stinson, Russell (2020). Bach's Legacy: The Music As Heard by Later Masters. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-190-09122-4. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  5. Huckvale, David (10 January 2014). Visconti and the German Dream: Romanticism, Wagner and the Nazi Catastrophe in Film. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-786-49275-6. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  6. La Grange, Henry-Louis de (1995). Gustav Mahler: Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-193-15160-4. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  7. Schuh, Willi (8 July 1982). Richard Strauss: A Chronicle of the Early Years 1864-1898. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-521-24104-5. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  8. Hilmes, Oliver (21 June 2016). Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-300-21946-3. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
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