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Siegfried Wagner (6 June 1869 - 4 August 1930) was the son of Richard Wagner and Cosima von Bülow and the grandson of Franz Liszt. He was a very productive opera composer, composing more operas than his father. In 1896 he started conducting at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and around Germany. Siegfried was the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. Though his works are numerous, none has entered the standard repertory.

Siegfried Wagner, who was secretly homosexual, showed little interest in marriage. In an arranged meeting in 1914 at the Bayreuth Festival, the then 45-year-old Wagner was introduced to 17-year-old Winifred Klindworth. On 22 September 1915 they married and it was hoped that the marriage would end Siegfried's homosexual encounters and the associated costly scandals. They had four children:

# Wieland (1917-1966) # Friedelinde (1918-1991) # Wolfgang (born 1919) # Verena (born 1920)

Siegfried did have an illegitimate son, Walter Aign, by a pastor's daughter. While Siegried was alive, Walter was employed as a repetiteur at the Festspielhaus; after his death, when Winifred Wagner took control, she had him fired.

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