CHILDREN OF WAGNER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 16, 9 May 1914, Page 6

CHILDREN OF WAGNER.

THE COURT'S DECISION. [Br Electric Telegraph!--Copyright [United Press , Association.] (Received 9.15 a.m.). Berlin, May 8. The court ruled that Fran Isolde Beidler must prove »that martial relations existed between her and Wagner twelve months before Isolde's birth.. Frau Isolde Beidler, wife of Herr Beidler, conductor of the Court Opera at Munich, has instituted a suit at Bayreuth against her mother, Frau Cosima Wagner, widow;of the great, composer, to claim the right to describe herself "Nee Wagner." Frau Wagner and her son Siegfried contend that Frau Beidler was a, daughter of Cost ima's first busbaud; Hans Ton Buelow, and not a daughter of Wagner. The suit is based on a statement that while Cpsima's five children were all born during the first marriage, which was finally dissolved in 1870, Cosima lived with Wagner as his wife as early as 1864, and that he, and not Buelow, was the father of the children. Isolde was born in 1865, and she and the two youngest children, Siegfried and Eva, the latter the wife of Mr Houston Stewart Chamberlain, were- recognised until 1912 as Wagner's legitimatised children.