Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Midstream
Angaben zur Quelle:
44,7 (1998) 9-12
Keywords:
Wagner, Richard,
;
Antisemitism in music
Abstract:
There exists a view that Wagner's antisemitism did not affect his operas, which, after all, have no Jewish characters. Contends that Wagner's operas, notably "The Master Singers of Nuremberg" and "The Ring of the Niebelung" cycle, contain covertly "Jewish, " i.e. antisemitic images. In "Master Singers" it is the villain Sixtus Beckmesser, and in "The Ring" it is the gnomes. Objects to recent attempts in some countries, including Germany and Israel, to whitewash Wagner's antisemitism.
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