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- Richard Wagner (1818-1883) was Hitler's favorite composer.
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Richard Wagner (1818-1883) was Hitler's favorite composer. During World War I, it is reported, he carried Wagner's music from Tristanin his knapsack. Often Hitler had Wagner's music performed at party rallies and functions. Wagner's music was uncompromisingly serious, and intensely Teutonic.
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Sep 2, 2023 · As hundreds of articles about the group have reminded us, Wagner was Hitler’s favorite composer; ergo, he must have served as a code for Hitlerism. Anyone collecting evidence of Wagner’s...
Sep 16, 2020 · “The opera guy? You know, Tristan and Isolde, the Ring cycle, Parsifal ?” “Oh,” the woman replies tentatively. “Wasn’t he a Nazi?” Wagner, who died in 1883, was one of Hitler’s...
Jan 3, 2022 · The composer’s daughter-in-law even sent him the paper on which Mein Kampf was probably written. For whatever reason, Wagner’s music struck an adolescent Hitler. So when Hitler rose to power, he took Richard Wagner along with him. In Hitler’s dictatorship, his personal taste for Wagner naturally became the taste of his party.
Sep 25, 2012 · The Case for Wagner in Israel. By ... and that he was Hitler’s favorite composer. There is, of course, more to Wagner than that. ... he would not have led all-Wagner concerts in America during ...
Like many Israelis, I associate Wagner’s music with World War II and the Nazis, specifically, Hitler. Though Wagner died six years before Hitler was even born, he was Hitler’s favorite composer and his music was used as a backdrop to a lot of Nazi events.
Jul 26, 2011 · A precedence-shattering concert: an Israeli orchestra playing the music of Wagner — a notoriously anti-Semitic composer — at Germany's Bayreuth Festival, once one of Hitler's favorite ...