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Alienation and belonging, eros and disgust: The four feelings were central in 19th-century attempts to define identity. Composer Richard Wagner embraced them and made them "German."
Sep 2, 2023 · The eternally problematic composer Richard Wagner, the godfather of all cancelled artists, was once again at the top of the news, seventy-eight years after the Daily Mail reported on Nazi...
Jul 7, 2023 · If a Russian army of mercenaries meant to wipe out 21 st century Nazis had to be named for a composer of classical music, it might have been named for one of its two most famous World War II composers, Serge Prokofiev or Dimitri Shostakovich, but their names do not translate into “power,” like Wagner’s does.
Apr 12, 2013 · Even though Richard Wagner died before Hitler's rise to power, the Wagner family, through its famous festival of the composer's operas in Bayreuth, Germany, eventually established close ties with...
Oct 2, 2020 · Wagner was called the Sorcerer of Bayreuth for a reason. Most famously, Wagner was a mythmaker who remains relevant for our time. Discussing Wagner’s four-part “Ring” cycle, Ross notes that...
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Apr 18, 2022 · And the group’s leader, Dmitry Utkin, is reportedly an avowed neo-Nazi who uses the call sign Wagner in reference to Adolf Hitler’s favorite opera composer. The Wagner Group’s rise to prominence is reigniting some generations-old questions: Was Richard Wagner anti-Semitic, and would he have been a Nazi sympathizer?
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Jan 6, 2023 · The cult of Richard Wagner, who had died 50 years before Hitler came to power, was politically fueled by Hitler's presence. Wagner's music, in turn, fueled Hitler's delusions of grandeur.
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