Her triumvirate of conductors--Levi, Richter and Felix Mottl--shared the musical direction until 1894, when Levi left. Richter and Mottl served throughout Cosima's years, joined by several of the leading conductors of the day, although B*low resisted all offers to participate. In the course of _her_ long stewardship Cosima overcame the misgivings of the hardline Wagnerites patrons who believed, like Nietzsche in his early years, that Wagner's works should not be entrusted to a non-German. <sep>, Pronoun: her <sep>, A: Richter <sep>, B: Cosima