Elisabeth Furtwängler - RIP

**richardfinegold** · 13-03-13, 01:05

Originally posted by Karafan View Post

Sad news indeed, but an excellent age nonetheless.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9925414/Elisabeth-Furtwangler.html

Elisabeth Furtwängler, who has died aged 102, was the widow of Wilhelm Furtwängler, one of the most controversial and charismatic orchestral conductors, whose links to the Third Reich remain hotly contested to this day; for the past six decades she tirelessly defended his reputation against those who accused him of harbouring Nazi sympathies.

She was wonderfully communicative on her life with WF in the recent documentary film Furtwänglers liebe.

RIP Frau Furtwängler

Did she comment on the children he had outside of marriage?

**Karafan** · 13-03-13, 13:32

I think not, from memory Richard, though it is a while since I watched it.

Elisabeth Furtwängler - RIP

Elisabeth Furtwängler - RIP

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