
	Where results make sense

Topic: Richard Wagner and anti Semitism

Related Topics

Honus Wagner

Robert Wagner

David Wagner

Wagner Jauregg, Julius

Matt Wagner

John Wagner

Barbara Wagner

Karl Edward Wagner

Richard Wagner and anti Semitism

Winifred Wagner

Fort Wagner

In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Richard Wagner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wagner is also an extremely controversial figure, both because of his musical and dramatic innovations, and because he was a very public proponent of anti-semitic ideas.
		Wagner's middle-stage output is considered to be of remarkably higher quality, and begins to show the deepening of his powers as a dramatist and composer.
		Wagner quickly embraced this claim, which must have resonated strongly despite its direct contradiction with his own arguments, in "Opera and Drama", that music in opera had to be subservient to the cause of drama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Wagner (4933 words)

	Wagner, Richard (1813 - 1883) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wagner was a remarkable innovator both in harmony and in the structure of his work, creating his own version of the Gesamtkunstwerk, dramatic compositions in which the arts were brought together into a single unity.
		In the later part of his career Wagner enjoyed the support of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and was finally able to establish his own theatre and festival at the Bavarian town of Bayreuth.
		Wagner's involvement in the revolution of 1848 and subsequent escape from Dresden led to the staging of his next dramatic work, Lohengrin, in Weimar, under the supervision of Liszt.
	www.naxos.com /composer/wagner.htm (401 words)

	Richard Wagner's Biography
		At this time, Wagner fell in love with Cosima von Bulow, who was Liszt's daughter and the wife of Hans von Bulow, Wagner's close friend and favorite conductor; she gave birth to two of Wagner's children while still married to von Bulow.
		Wagner revolutionized opera by shifting the focus from voice to orchestra and treating the orchestra symphonically.
		The music of Wagner was not heard in Israel until great Jewish musicians such as Leonard Bernstein and Daniel Bareboim pleaded for it, holding that he music itself should not be condemned for the sins of the man who wrote it.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Fields/8616/composerfiles/wagner.html (1139 words)

	The Controversy Over Richard Wagner
		When, in 1985, the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth, Germany, opened an exhibition entitled "Wagner and the Jews," its organizer, museum director Manfred Eger, said it was a plea not for Wagner but for the truth.
		"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.
		Wagner's Jew-hating pronouncements are quoted in the company of similar antisemitic statements by Voltaire, Marx, Luther, Napoleon and others (as though anyone doubts that antisemitism did not come into the world with Wagner).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/anti-semitism/Wagner.html (2164 words)

	Wagner's ring of anti-semitism - www.theage.com.au
		Richard Wagner, says Gottfried, was one of the most able self-promoters of the 19th century.
		Wagner spent some of his childhood in the 1820s living in the Jewish fur-trade district of Leipzig and his mother married Ludwig Geyer in 1814; Richard's father having died shortly after his birth in 1813.
		Couple these facts with the musical support the young Wagner was given musically by the two leading composers of the 1830s, Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn, who were both Jewish, and the picture which emerges is of a Richard Wagner who is surrounded by, and supported by, the European Jewry.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/12/09/1070732197323.html (717 words)

	HNH - Naxos Classical
		The last time Wagner's music was played as prominently in Israel, 20 years ago, Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic had to stop when an outraged Holocaust survivor leaped on stage to show his concentration camp scars.
		Wagner died long before Hitler in 1883, but he remains so polarizing because he was a vehement racist.
		A year before Wagner died, his wife Cosima reported, "He made a drastic joke" on hearing that hundreds of Jews had died in a Vienna theater fire "that all Jews should be burned at a performance of Nathan [the Wise]" -- Gotthold Lessing's play about religious tolerance.
	www.naxos.com /newDesign/fopinions.files/bopinions.files/Music_News7.htm (1180 words)

	CJh Treasures From the Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wagner similarly dismissed the literature of Jewish born Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Borne as wan, bloodless, sarcastic and self-negating.
		The later Wagner, influenced by the racist philosophy of the French diplomat and historian Comte de Gobineau, whom he personally befriended, is already a theorist of blood purity, insisting on the need to cleanse European civilization from the spiritual and physical pollution of the Jews.
		By 1881, Wagner’s racist strain had intensified to the point that he could write to Ludwig II of Bavaria, in a further and more pernicious echoing of his opinions of 1850: “I hold the Jewish race to be the born enemy of pure humanity and everything noble in it.
	www.cjh.org /about/Forward/view_Forward.cfm?Forwardid=8 (1246 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Wagner as Anti-Semite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		...Indeed, Wagner later saw himself as having done the cause of assimilation a service, for in attacking the Jews he was only making the clearest possible presentation of the difficulties which stood in the way of the only viable solution (expulsion being ruled out as impractical) to the Jewish problem...
		...Wagner was not in the position of a scientist whose discovery is later used for other than his own, innocent, purposes...
		...Even if Wagner never intended to be "a central symbol of the antiSemitic campaign and later the banner of the campaign for the annihilation of the Jews," he showed, by his public restraint in the interest of furthering his career, that he was aware of what he was doing, and in no sense naive...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V83I1P59-1.htm (3389 words)

	Wagner: moralist or monster? by Roger Scruton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Wagner presented by Köhler is a figure damaged from the earliest age by an unloving mother and usurping stepfather, but consoled during childhood and adolescence by the tender love of a favorite sister.
		Wagner idealized this sister as the good anima of his dreams, and wandered through adult life in the hope of meeting her.
		In the absence of a patient, Köhler’s analysis of Wagner is as empty as Freud’s of Leonardo (which also, come to think of it, relied upon a hidden “vulture,” perceived in the folds of St. Anne’s dress in the celebrated picture of the Virgin and child with St. Anne).
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/23/feb05/scruton.htm (2280 words)

	D. Wasn't Wagner anti-Semitic? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wagner was an anti-Semite from, at the latest, 1850, when he wrote 'Judaism in Music' (Das Judenthum in der Musik).
		Zelinsky interpreted RW as a proto-Nazi, and attempted to demonstrate that racial and anti-Semitic schemes lay beneath the surface of RW's music-dramas.
		Reprinted in 'The Wagner Compendium', London 1992 and in 'Wagner in Performance', New Haven 1992.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/music/wagner/general-faq/section-18.html (631 words)

	TAU NEWS - Richard Wagner and the Jews
		The Israeli participants explained the ban on Wagner's music in Israel, which is maintained in deference to the demands of Holocaust survivors.
		Three reasons contribute to this: Wagner's anti-Semitic writings, particularly his treatise Judaism in Music; Wagner's status as the favorite composer of Hitler, who used his compositions as the "theme music" of the Nazi Party; and lastly, the strong association of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus (after Wagner's death) with Hitler and the Nazis.
		She believed, however, that the symbol Wagner represents is still far too strong and powerful in the minds of Holocaust survivors to be changed by a sudden decision.
	www.tau.ac.il /taunews/98fall/wagner.html (512 words)

	Wilhelm Richard Geyer Wagner, 1813-1883 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The news of the birth of Wilhelm Richard (last name debatable at that point) to Johanna Wagner paled against the news of Napoleon's rapid advance towards the Elbe, where he was planning to use Saxony as a base for the recapture of Berlin and the reconquest of Prussia.
		Richard was raised as Richard Geyer, until sometime after he was confirmed at the age of 14, six years after Geyer's death.
		Richard was the only one of her children not to be given regular music lessons.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/childhoods_famous_people/64578 (592 words)

	[humanities.music.composers.wagner] Wagner General FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wagner intended to reverse this, and to create "music-dramas" (not a term introduced by RW but one that has often been applied to his later dramas) in which music would serve the purposes of drama.
		Richard and Jessie had a brief but passionate affair there in 1850, but plans to elope to Greece were prevented by the intervention of her husband.
		Wagner gave the custom his approval, saying that applause was not appropriate after the quiet ending of the first act, but the claim that it was his idea is untrue.
	omicron.felk.cvut.cz /FAQ/articles/a4654.html (14238 words)

	Parsifal and Race
		Gobineau's negative assessment of the Germans, Wagner explained in Herodom and Christendom that he did not agree that there was, or had ever been, a superior race, a race of heroes; one that had fallen out of the sky, perhaps, or descended from gods.
		Wagner did not express himself concisely; in many cases it is necessary to read many paragraphs, or even an entire article, to understand what Wagner meant.
		Wagner's prejudices did not prevent him from having a love affair with Judith, almost entirely by correspondence (which was mostly destroyed by Wagner himself) between Wagner in Bayreuth and Judith in Paris.
	home.c2i.net /monsalvat/racism.htm (6879 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination (Texts and Contexts Series) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The less you want to know about Wagner’s anti-semitism (and there is a LOT of nonsense about it to be read, things like “anti-semitism was in the air at the time, he couldn’t escape it”, that kind of stuff) the easier it is to enjoy his works (and continue to spend money on them).
		He quotes Mahler's private remark in 1898 that Wagner's Mime was "intended to ridicule the Jews (with all of their characteristic traits...)...," but Weiner does not point out that in 1897, the Jewish-born Mahler converted to Catholicism, and so his own relationship to Judaism and antisemitism was singular and at a critical stage.
		Still, the fact remains that Wagner _was_ antisemitic, and that's a disgrace for the man. But it doesn't follow that artists put the worst of themselves into their art: no-one alleges, for example, that TS Eliot's antisemitism is hidden in coded messages in the poems of "Cats".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0803297920?v=glance (2688 words)

	Hitler & Wagner
		Wagner's operas may have had an almost religious effect upon Hitler; Wagner's skill for drama and dramatic music no doubt underscored the impact of the legends already known to Hitler from youth.
		Wagner finished the first two segments, (Das Rheingold and Die Walküre), and part of the third, (Siegfried), by 1857, but seventeen years would go by before he would finish the great work with the completion of Siegfried and the final music drama in the cycle: Götterdämmerung (Grout, 746-747) (Hamilton, 303).
		The anti-Semitic opinions Richard Wagner had held were no secret, and the concurrence of opinion between these two men could only have served to pull Hitler closer to a greater regard for Wagner.
	www.arkrat.net /hitwag.htm (4995 words)

	Parsifal Bibliography: a bibliography of Wagner's 'Parsifal'.
		Wagner's studies of Buddhism continued with this translation of Suttas from the Pali canon.
		Richard Wagner's Buddha-Project "Die Sieger" ("The Victors"): its traces in the ideas and structure of "The Ring" and "Parsifal", English translation of the above with minor revisions (and some errors) by William Buchanan, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 1996.
		Discusses Wagner's place in the history of anti-Semitism and the importance of anti- Semitism in the life and works of Richard Wagner.
	home.c2i.net /monsalvat/biblio.htm (2401 words)

	Review of "Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination"
		Part of the reason Wagner has never ceased to be an object of fascination is sheer Wagnerian eccentricity -- not only of Richard himself but also of those members of his clan who have dedicated their lives to perpetuating the Wagner mystique.
		But special "Wagner problems" have come to the fore in the post-Holocaust world, most notably the question of whether Wagner's anti-Semitism can be detected in his works for the stage and the implied question of Wagner's own responsibility for disseminating anti-Jewish feelings that would culminate in the virtual eradication of European Jewry.
		The broader implications of Wagner and Bayreuth are drawn from a limited assortment of secondary writings, a laxity in scholarship that is aggravated by a paucity of footnotes.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/reviewas1.htm (1036 words)

	La Folia -- Wagner, Hitler and Anti-Semitism
		The Wagner motifs found in all of Ludwig's castles, including a large excavated grotto with a lake and swan boat, are testimony to the zealous devotion Wagner did and still does inspire in susceptible individuals.
		From the diaries and many of Wagner's own published diatribes, one could make a case that anyone who expressed any doubt as to the perfection of Wagner's talent, or who stinted in his financial support of the artist, was subject to being characterized as an inferior being, i.e., a Semite.
		Hitler (and Wagner) appeared to have little interest in obliterating fl, Oriental, Moslem, or Indian cultures, because their arts, histories and opinions were too far removed from Wagner's to be relevant or reviled.
	www.lafolia.com /archive/glasgal/glasgal200204wagner.html (835 words)

	Milestones of the Millennium: Richard Wagner
		Wagner was truly original, in part because he was self-taught and never imbued with musical convention.
		Wagner depicts the creation of the universe in a slowly-unfolding movement--some 180 measures building up through every possible chordal derivation of E-flat.
		We also hear Wagner’s presence in Charlie Chaplin’s film “The Dictator” and Placido Domingo’s performance of the opera “The Valkyrie.” Berger says, today we encounter Wagner in the subconscious of our aesthetic culture--his revolutionary artistic influence was so great.
	www.npr.org /programs/specials/milestones/990630.motm.rwagner.html (590 words)

	Baptism
		It was this truncated, Wagnerian Christianity that Wagner now wished to bestow upon Hermann Levi, the son of a Rabbi.
		Wagner seems to have deluded himself that his version of Christianity could be palatable to Levi; who remained indifferent.
		Wagner gave up attempts to convert him to Wagnerian Christianity and it was Levi who conducted the first performances of Parsifal in 1882, to Wagner's total satisfaction.
	home.c2i.net /monsalvat/baptism.htm (842 words)

	Review of Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination
		His treatment of Wagner's characters' bodies as metaphors is often impressive and contributes to the growing--pardon me--corpus on perceptions and manipulations of the body in culture and history.
		Weiner's treatment of racism in Wagner's music is especially fascinating, as for example in his explanation in the "Voices" chapter of the vocal and instrumental shifts that reflect the "Jewish" speech of Alberich and Mime in Siegfried (pp.135-40).
		He quotes Mahler's private remark in 1898 that Wagner's Mime was "intended to ridicule the Jews (with all of their characteristic traits...)...," but Weiner does not point out that in 1897, the Jewish-born Mahler converted to Catholicism, and so his own relationship to Judaism and anti-Semitism was singular and at a critical stage.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/reviewsh12.htm (2082 words)

	Das Judenthum in der Musik : Wagner and anti-Semitism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Richard Wagner settled in Zurich in 1849, and there wrote an anti-Semitic article, "Das Judenthum in der Musik" ("Judaism in Music"), which appeared in the Neue Zeitschrift over the pen-name "K. Freigedenk" ("free thought").
		Passing over the moral side, in the effect of this in itself unpleasant freak of Nature, and coming to its bearings upon Art, we here will merely observe that to us this exterior can never be thinkable as a subject for the art of representment.
		In the first place, then, the general circumstance that the Jew talk the modern European languages merely as learnt, and not as mother tongues, must necessarily debar him from all capability of therein expressing himself idiomatically, independently and conformably to his nature.
	www.eurofreehost.com /wa/Wagner_and_anti-Semitism.html (452 words)

	Review Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination (Texts and Contexts Series) - Computer Toaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wagner's anti-Semitism was real enough, but this book goes so far over the deep end that in the end it actually comes close to redeeming the accused (to a certain extent)....
		The most naked flaw of the book is that its rather simple themes are described in graduate school vocabulary of the most indulgent kind.
		Is he (un)consciously emulating Wagner's steriotype of Jewish intellectuals being little more than stuffed...
	computertoaster.com /reviews/asinsearch_0803297920 (232 words)

	Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination -- Marc A. Weiner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Until now, scholars have generally acknowledged Wagner's anti-Semitism but have argued that it is irrelevant to the operas themselves.
		Weiner argues that the operas exemplify and contribute to a vast collection of images that are patently anti-Semitic - and that were readily recognized as such by nineteenth-century German audiences.
		Through a careful examination of Wagner's music, libretti, and stage directions, Weiner reconstructs iconographies of corporeal images - iconographies of the eye, voice, smell, gait, and sexuality - that were essential to the operas and were "associated with anti-Semitism and the longing for an imagined German community."
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0803297920 (168 words)

	MonkeyFilter \| Wagner Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A new biography of Richard Wagner by Joachim Köhler paints a picture of a deeply emotionally broken human being, a user, a paranoid; moulded by parental neglect into a romantic with an inability, perhaps, to truly love anyone but himself and his music.
		No surprise either that he feels we need not overly detain ourselves with the relevance of Wagner's anti-semitism even as he 'devoted himself to the highest of ideals...with a serene and objective vision of what is at stake in human life' who 'worked conscientiously on behalf of a vision that he wished urgently to share'.
		Scruton seemed mostly offended that the new biography was mean to Wagner, "Don't Be So Mean to the Master" seemed to be his main point.
	monkeyfilter.com /link.php/7831 (1572 words)

	Re: Wagner and Liszt´s anti-Semitism
		I´m sure that most of the people here already know that Wagner married Liszt´s daughter Cosima, who is reputed to have been an even bigger anti-Semite than Wagner.
		There´s a story that Wagner presented a copy of his treatise on "Jewry in Music" to Liszt sometime in 1850.
		At the time, Wagner didn´t have the testicular fortitude to sign his own name to the anti-Semitic essay, but instead signed it K. Freidenker (Free Thinker).
	www.mail-archive.com /jewish-music@shamash.org/msg00258.html (336 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)