Next case in Court 1: it's Wagner vs Wagner, again

Next case in Court 1: it's Wagner vs Wagner, again

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norman lebrecht

December 12, 2011

The querulous defendants of Richard Wagner have gone to law once more.

A great-granddaughter, Iris Wagner, is suing the Bayreuth Wagner Foundation and the City of Leipzig for her share of Gramps’s piano, a Bechstein given to the old boy by mad King Ludwig back in 1864.

Who’d sue over such a thing, nearly 150 years later? Only a Wagner.

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