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Show Vagner's Gondolier Two score years later than his onetime one-time master. Signor Ganassetto, the favorite gondolier of Richard Wagner, has made his last trip and passed away at the age of eighty-two. After ! he had served Wagner for many years i during Ihe hitter's visits to Venice, t Ganassetto had the honor of having ! bis portrait painted by Jankowsky, an ! artist friend of the composer, at the j hitter's request. On Christmas eve, 1SS2. the last seen by Wagner, the gondolier gon-dolier was one of the jruests at the Wagner festivities. Later in the evening eve-ning he rowed his host to the Teatro Venice, where the master conducted Mozart's "Magic Flute." In February, 18S3, Wagner, accompanied accom-panied by his wife, Coslma, took his last trip through the canals of Venice. Ven-ice. Tie asked to be rowed to the St. Michele cemetery. There he was seized by a fainting spell. Hurried home, he recovered consciousness, but six days later died. Ganassetto rowed the remains re-mains of his master to the railroad station, where they were put on a train for Germany. |