Cosima Wagner Two Volume Set on sale Richard Count Du Moulin-Eckart 1930 Knopf First American Printing Translated by Catherine Alison Phillips

on sale This is a Vintage Pre-Owned Item. This is a two volume illustrated set: Cosima Wagner by Richard Count Du Molin-Eckart translated by Catherine Alison Phillips with an introduction by Ernest Newman. This edition was printed by Alfred A Knopf in 1930. Lives of Brilliant Women - Alfred Knopf

Volume 1 contains 461 pages
Volume 2 contains pages 463 - 892 as well as 9 pages of index
Each Book measures about 9 1/2 inches tall and 6 1/2 inches wide

As described by Wikipedia, Cosima Wagner played a significant role in the lives of well known composers and the Bayreuth Music Festival:

Cosima Wagner (born Francesca Gaetana Cosima Liszt; 24 December 1837 – 1 April 1930) was the illegitimate daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult. She became the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner, and with him founded the Bayreuth Festival as a showcase for his stage works; after his death she devoted the rest of her life to the promotion of his music and philosophy. Commentators have recognised Cosima as the principal inspiration for Wagner's later works, particularly Parsifal.

In 1857, after a childhood largely spent under the care of her grandmother and with governesses, Cosima married the conductor Hans von Bülow. Although the marriage produced two children, it was largely a loveless union, and in 1863 Cosima began a relationship with Wagner, who was 24 years her senior. She married him in 1870; after his death in 1883 she directed the Bayreuth Festival for more than 20 years, increasing its repertoire to form the Bayreuth canon of ten operas and establishing the festival as a major event in the world of musical theatre.