Franz Beidler

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Franz Philipp Beidler (born March 29, 1872 in Kaiserstuhl , Canton Aargau , † January 15, 1930 in Munich ) was a Swiss conductor and husband of Isolde Wagner , a daughter of Richard Wagner .

Life

Franz Beidler attended high school in St. Gallen , the music school in Weimar and the conservatory in Leipzig. From 1894 he worked in the Bayreuth Festival's style training school under Julius Kniese (1848–1905) in Bayreuth . After that, at the age of 24, from 1896 he became musical assistant at the Bayreuth Festival . From 1902 to 1905 he was Imperial Music Director in Moscow , and in 1905 he succeeded Julius Kniese as head of the style school.

On December 12, 1900, he married Isolde Wagner (1865–1919; née Isolde Ludowika von Bülow), the eldest daughter of the composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883). The only son born from the marriage was Franz Wilhelm Beidler (1901–1981), "Richard Wagner's first grandson". After 1906 there was a falling out with the Wagner family , which in 1913 led to a sensational lawsuit by Beidler's wife against her mother Cosima Wagner for her rights as the composer's eldest child ( Beidler trial ). At the time of Isolde's birth Cosima Wagner was still married to the conductor Hans von Bülow , which is why the court did not recognize the family relationship in 1914.

Franz Beidler had an illegitimate daughter with the singer Emmy Zimmermann and two children with his domestic servant Walpurga Rass, whom he married on February 17, 1922. Therefore, he fell out with his son Franz Wilhelm. In the later years of his life, Franz Beidler worked as a businessman.

Bayreuth Festival

From 1896 to 1906, the year of the split with the Wahnfried House and the family, Franz Beidler took part in the Festival with interruptions:

Richard Wagner's widow, Cosima Wagner, who worked as a strict principal in Bayreuth, initially saw her son-in-law Franz Beidler as a future festival conductor. In November 1900, shortly before her daughter's wedding, she asked Gustav Mahler to accept him as an assistant or trainee conductor . At her festival she later broadcast a performance of the Ring to Beidler in 1904 and, on his return from Moscow, two performances of Parsifal in 1906. During the latter festival, an artistic conflict arose. Cosima Wagner later described that Franz Beidler wanted to take advantage of the conductor Karl Muck's sudden illness in order to “blackmail” further performances for himself (quoted by Egon Voss). During the course of the festival, her doubts about Beidler's fortune increased, so that in a letter dated August 11, 1906, she confirmed to him: You have the potential to be a capable conductor. Technically you are still missing a lot, which is why I wish that you attend Richter's rehearsals, from which much can be learned in this regard, and that you apply for a post so that you can earn what you lack through strenuous activity. You have precision, firmness and violence. You lack tenderness, intimacy and remoteness.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Egon Voss: 100 Years of the Bayreuth Festival . Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1976, p. 31, p. 37-39, p. 103 f.
  2. ↑ Oliver Hilmes: Cosimas Kinder , Verlag Pantheon 2010
  3. ^ The cast of the Bayreuth Festival 1876–1960 . Edited by Käte Neupert, Edition Musica, Bayreuth 1961, p. 89
personal data
SURNAME Beidler, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beidler, Franz Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserstuhl AG
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1930
Place of death Munich