Baroness Daniela von Bülow (12 October 1860 – 28 July 1940), nicknamed Loulou or Lusch , was a German

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and

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Biography

Born as Daniela Senta von Bülow Liszt on 12 October 1860 in

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, Germany, Daniela von Bülow was the first daughter of the conductor and pianist

Hans von Bülow Freiherr Hans Guido von Bülow (; 8 January 1830 – 12 February 1894) was a German conductor, pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. As one of the most distinguished conductors of the 19th century, his activity was critical for establishi ...

, and Cosima Liszt. She was named after Cosima's brother, Daniel Liszt, who “had tragically died of consumption in 1859”. She was the step-daughter of Richard Wagner , German composer, and the granddaughter of

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, Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher. She was a “fine pianist” in her own right, who had been trained primarily by her mother but also coached by Wagner. After her parents' divorce in 1870, she stayed with her mother Cosima, who married Wagner in the same year. Since then she lived first in

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, then in

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. 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,

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. She married Henry Thode on 3 July 1886 and lived with him until her return to Bayreuth in 1914 after their divorce. She worked as a costume designer at the

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, an annual musical event. 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

on 28 July 1940.

References

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