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Classical Music

Aristus

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4. You make some good points.

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 24, 2013, 10:27 AM

Jun 2013

Another that I've heard is that Hitler's affinity for Wagner's music puts that music beyond the pale. And while there's no doubt that Wagner was an awful human being, it doesn't hurt to try and separate the music from the man.

After all, Wagner wasn't writing music strictly for anti-Semites, anymore than Mozart was writing music for alcoholics, or Schubert was writing music for syphilitics, or Stravinsky was writing music for Czarist reactionaries.

The evil that men do lives on after them. The good is often buried with them. That doesn't have to be the case with Wagner.

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Wagner's 'The Siegfried Idyll' is the 'end credits' of the Ring Cycle. [View all] Aristus May 2013 OP

Actually, my favorite piece of Wagner is Siegfried's funeral music Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2013 #1

"Excaliber" is the movie that introduced me to Wagner's music. Aristus Jun 2013 #2

I have very mixed feelings about Wagner Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2013 #3

You make some good points. Aristus Jun 2013 #4

That Hitler liked Wagner means nothing Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2013 #5

Yeah, there's no getting around that. Aristus Jun 2013 #6