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Apr 25, 2024 · Wagner was not only an anti-Semite but also a racist; Wagner was a prototype Nazi who wrote the script for the Third Reich; Racial and anti-Semitic ideas were the driving force behind Wagner's creativity; At least one character in each Wagner opera is a caricature Jew; The underlying message of every Wagner opera is "kill the Jews"
Apr 19, 2024 · An Introduction to Wagner's. Parsifal. Parsifal - an Opera by Richard Wagner. Wagner's Parsifal (1882) is a drama surrounded by controversy and confusion. It has been accused of being immoral, blasphemous, decadent, racist and misogynist. It has also been called a supreme song of love and pity.
5 days ago · Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( / d ( ə) ˈvɔːrʒɑːk, - ʒæk / d (ə-)VOR-zha (h)k; Czech: [antoˈɲiːn ˈlɛopold dvoˈr̝aːk] ⓘ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example ...
4 days ago · Jean Sibelius. Jean Sibelius ( forename in the French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃] surname in the Finland Swedish: [siˈbeːliʉs] ⓘ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; [1] 8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Cosima Wagner (born December 25, 1837, Bellagio, Lombardy, Austrian Empire [now in Italy]—died April 1, 1930, Bayreuth, Germany) was the wife of the composer Richard Wagner and director of the Bayreuth Festivals from his death in 1883 to 1908. Cosima was the illegitimate daughter of the composer-pianist Franz Liszt and the countess Marie d ...
Apr 29, 2024 · The opera is set in the domain and in the castle of the guardians of the Grail, Monsalvat, where the landscape resembles the northern mountains of Gothic Spain. Afterwards in Klingsor's magic castle on the southern slope of the same mountains facing Moorish Spain. The costume of the Knights and Squires resembles that of the Templars: a white ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Synopsis. On today’s date in 1887, readers of the Wiener Salonblatt, a fashionable Viennese weekly artspaper, could enjoy the latest critical skirmish in the Brahms-Wagner wars. At the close of the 19th century, traditionalist partisans of the Symphonies, Sonatas, and String Quartets of Johannes Brahms rallied around the conservative Viennese ...
