45706X1 Reprint Edition. Dorset Press, New York: 1990. 314 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. He was born in 1845 and succeeded to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. He was king for just over twenty years. He was the patron of Richard Wagner for whom he built the magnificent theatre at Bayreuth where the first complete performance of Der Ring des Nibelugen was staged. His mania for building has left Bavaria with structures that to this day are tourist attractions. In 1886 he was declared insane, and soon after he was drowned in Lake Stainberg. For this balanced and sympathetic biography of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Desmond Chapman-Huston was given the complete freedom of the secret Archives of the Royal House of Wittelsbach. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0880294930 $9.45USD
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