Charles Ludwig Wagner

Charles Ludwig Wagner was an American concert impresario and theater producer. He managed John McCormack and Mary Garden, and introduced Walter Gieseking. He founded the Charles L. Wagner Opera Company.

Biography

He was born on September 20, 1868 in Illinois. He grew up in Shelbyville. His parents were from Wuerttemberg. They have no living descendants. His niece Grace B. Wagner was an opera singer and pianist.
In the 1920s, he worked as a Broadway theatre producer in New York City.
Wagner authored an autobiography detailing his experiences as a manager of speakers and performing artists, Seeing Stars, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.
He died at age 87 of a short illness on February 25, 1956, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City.