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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 ...
July 23, 2013. This bronze portrait bust of German composer Richard Wagner, sculptured by artist Arno Breker, resides in Bayreuth, Germany, home of the annual festival honoring his work. Getty ...
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Wagner's magnum opus, a 16-hour series of four operas called The Ring of the Nibelungen — or Ring cycle for short — was inspired by Norse sagas. Through the cycle, Wagner set out to depict ...
Dennis, David B.. Their Meister's Voice: Nazi Reception of Richard Wagner and His Works in the Völkischer Beobachter. Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance, , : 138-150, 2016. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, History: Faculty Publications and Other Works, This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access ...
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Mar 2, 2023 · The Nazis made Richard Wagner a national hero. Hitler loved his music, and Germany made the Bayreuth Music Festival a center of Nazi propaganda. Goebbels called Die Meistersinger “the most German of all German operas.” Today, many consider Wagner inseparable from Nazism and avoid his music dramas.
Apr 8, 2022 · He has spent the last few years pursuing what he calls a “public cultural exorcism” of his own Wagner demons, exploring the composer’s antisemitism through a series of acclaimed productions...
Aug 8, 2023 · In the next century, these views resulted in the German Nazi party holding up Wagner as a composer for particular endorsement (despite his possible Jewish ancestry through Geyer). Wagnerism and Nazism became bedfellows.
