On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 12:34:26 AM UTC-8,
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On Friday, September 9, 2005 at 3:50:31 PM UTC-10, Premise Checker wrote:
Wagner, the repulsive giant
The Times Literary Supplement, 5.8.31 http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2111843
Peter Williams
RICHARD WAGNER
The last of the Titans. Translated from the German by Stewart Spencer Joachim Köhler
688pp. | Yale University Press. £29.95 (US $40). | 0 300 10422 7
If, on one hand, you ever wanted to know what a swine Richard Wagner
was, this is the book to tell you. It does so at length, in reliable detail, calmly, without prurience, perfectly backed with
documentation, and in a translation whose only fault is in giving no Translator's Notes for in-house German references. Joachim Köhler sustains his story with new ideas, revises other interpretations and modestly deconstructs Cosima née Liszt's creation of "Richard Wagner Enterprises Inc". (This she developed so far as to keep Parsifal
exclusive to Bayreuth...
According to this:
- At the outbreak of WW2, Hitler had performances of Parsifal banned throughout Germany, including at Bayreuth. His reason was that the work was too pacifist for a nation at war.
http://www.wagneropera.net/articles/articles-bayliss-2017-parsifal-and-anti-semitism.htm
https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/humanities.music.composers.wagner/c/9bUb5BthX-o
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