Charles Ludwig Wagner

Charles Ludwig Wagner (1869 – February 25, 1956) 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.

He died at age 87 of a short illness on February 25, 1956, at Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West) in New York City.