Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Cambridge Opera Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,2 (1994) 125-145
Keywords:
Wagner, Richard,
;
Levi, Hermann
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
;
Jews Music
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Rejects the accusation of some writers that Hermann Levi, the conductor and Jewish Wagnerian who conducted "Parsifal" at the Bayreuth Festival in 1882-94, was a "self-hating Jew, who was crushed by sentiments of shame and guilt in his last years." Contrary to the viewpoint of some historians (P.L. Rose, Peter Gay, and others), who see Aryan and proto-fascist motifs in Wagner's opera, contends that the program of "Parsifal" is much more complex and does not fit in the narrow framework of racial and antisemitic ideology. Levi, a highly esteemed conductor, was deeply integrated in the German culture of his time; it was the aesthetic virtues of Wagner's music which attracted Levi to the composer.
DOI:
10.1017/S0954586700004213
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