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Richard Wagner - German Composer, Anti-Semitism: That Wagner harboured anti-Semitic sentiments is both well known and uncontested within the realm of musicological inquiry. The composer openly articulated his views in a number of publications, most notably Judaism in Music (Das Judentum in der Musik; 1850), in which he identified Jewish musicians as the ultimate source of what he perceived as ...
"Richard Wagner's antisemitism throws a considerable shadow over his person and his work," Eger states in his introduction to the exhibition: "There are expressions used by him which could have been attributed to the National Socialist violently anti-Semitic Der Stürmer and which are used today to brand him as a proponent of the Holocaust. But ...
Richard Wagner. The German composer Richard Wagner was a controversial figure during his lifetime, and has continued to be so after his death. [1] Even today he is associated in the minds of many with Nazism and his operas are often thought to extol the virtues of German nationalism. The writer and Wagner scholar Bryan Magee has written:
The Darker Side of Genius: Richard Wagner’s Anti-Semitism. Jewish Book Club. Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Jacob Katz. For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview.
Wagner died in 1883. Hitler was born in 1889. ‘Use, abuse and misuse’. Barenboim is also quick to point out that widespread recognition of Wagner’s anti-Semitism did not prevent his music ...
After his death in 1883, the festival and the theater became a hallowed shrine for his followers, many of whom embraced his ideology of fierce German nationalism, racial superiority and anti-Semitism.
One of Wagner’s most unsettling anti-Semitic slogans—“The Jew is the plastic demon of the decline of mankind”—is quoted in the hideous propaganda film “The Eternal Jew.”
