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Ludwig II of Bavaria has inspired a fascination like no other 19th century monarch. Best remembered for his patronage of Wagner and the imaginative genius of his extraordinary ""fantasies in stone"", and alternately dubbed ""the Swan King"", the ""Mad King"", and the ""Dream King"", Ludwig’s life and death have long been characterized by mystery, legend, and romance. In this penetrating biography, Christopher McIntosh seeks to unravel these layers of mystery and reveal the man at the core of the legend, shedding new light on the more ambiguous aspects of Ludwig II’s life - his latent homosexuality, supposed madness, and the enduring mystery of his death. Ludwig II’s short life is steeped in tragic irony. Through his idealistic quest for romance and his fixation with Bavarian myths and legends, most tellingly with the Grail stories of Lohengrin - so potently incarnated in Wagner’s operas - the Swan King became more fabled than the very legends he sought to recreate. Yet in his desire to escape from a cloistered upbringing and the stale pattern of his adult life as king and his subsequent neglect of Bavaria at such a fragile period in its history, Ludwig planted the seeds of his own undoing - exposing himself to the treachery of factions unnerved by his eccentricity, extravagance, and luminous vision. Ludwig II’s death marked the passing of the old Bavaria and the birth of a new order, yet his legend lives on, a nineteenth century King Arthur, a man surpassed by his own mythological persona.
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Accessible, yet thoroughly researched, this biography presents the story of Ludwig II of Bavaria. Ludwig is best remembered for his patronage of Wagner and for fantasy-like palaces which he created. The Swan King presents new conclusions on the more uncertain aspects of Ludwig II's life including his homosexuality, his supposed madness, and the mystery of his death.
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Christopher McIntosh was born in England in 1943 and grew up in Edinburgh. He studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University and German at London University. Later, he returned to Oxford to take a doctorate in History. As a writer, he has specialized in the history of ideas, central European history, and the Western esoteric tradition. In addition to The Swan King, he has written two books on the Rosicrucians, a biography of the French occultist Elphias Lévi and his most recent work, Gardens of the Gods, also published by I.B.Tauris.
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- PublisherA. Lane
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0713912049
- ISBN 13 9780713912043
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