The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age
Mar 2026 · Blackwater Press
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Cloaked in mystery, Anton Seidl materialized in the New World as Wagner's personal emissary. A sorcerer, he commanded musical New York and toured widely, everywhere received with awed deference. In Brooklyn, Laura Langford's Seidl Society presented summertime Seidl concerts on Coney Island fourteen times weekly. Working women arrived in special railroad cars; Black orphans were regaled with roast chicken, ice cream, and the Tannhäuser March. A clairvoyant theosophist, Langford identified Seidl as a "chela" and traced the ceremonies of Parsifal to the Himalayas. Seidl's appeal was uncanny; at the American premiere of Tristan und Isolde, women stood on their chairs and "screamed their delight." At his funeral, women clasped elbows to force their way into the mobbed Metropolitan Opera House, a spectacle of chaos. His Manhattan friends—including Antonin Dvorák, whose New World Symphony he premiered—were legion. And yet Seidl remained a man apart, afflicted with secret sorrows.
Cloaked in mystery, Anton Seidl materialized in the New World as Wagner's personal emissary. A sorcerer, he commanded musical New York and toured widely, everywhere received with awed deference. In Brooklyn, Laura Langford's Seidl Society presented summertime Seidl concerts on Coney Island fourte...
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Joseph Horowitz, author of eleven books, specializes in the history of classical music in the U.S. His Understanding Toscanini (1987) and Wagner Nights (1994) received major accolades, while Classical Music in America (2005) and Artists in Exile (2008) were The Economist best-of-the-year selections. His Dvorá k' s Prophecy (2021) led to six Naxos films and inspired his ongoing " More than Music" NPR documentaries. His upcoming book, The Propaganda of Freedom, explores the cultural Cold War. Across his work, Horowitz examines the evolving role of the arts in American society.
Joseph Horowitz, author of eleven books, specializes in the history of classical music in the U.S. His Understanding Toscanini (1987) and Wagner Nights (1994) received major accolades, while Classical Music in America (2005) and Artists in Exile (2008) were The Economist best-of-the-year selectio...
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