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Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 470
Authors: Marc A. Weiner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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This book addresses one of the most hotly contested debates in contemporary cultural life: the question of how anti-Semitism figures in the operas of Richard Wa
Richard Wagner and the Jews
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Milton E. Brener
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-27 - Publisher: McFarland

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It is well known that Richard Wagner, the renowned and controversial 19th century composer, exhibited intense anti-Semitism. The evidence is everywhere in his w
Forbidden Music
Language: en
Pages: 505
Authors: Michael Haas
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-15 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front
Wagner's Meistersinger
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Nicholas Vazsonyi
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: University Rochester Press

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Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg has been one of the most performed operas ever since its premiere in 1868. It was adopted as Germany's national
The Darker Side of Genius
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Jacob Katz
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher:

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Richard Wagner's anti-Semitism considered in the context of his time, place, and aspirations rather than in relation to his later appropriation by the Nazis.