Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism (Wagner:1813-1883)

Dr. Douglass Seaton states in his textbook that Richard Wagner (1813-1883) "...like many artists of the time, became involved in the political uprisings that swept through Europe, and his revolutionary activities made him persona non grata in Germany." While this is true, what Dr. Seaton fails to mention in the short blurb about Wagner is his extreme hatred for Jewish people. It was not necessarily only the radical ideas that caused him to fall from …

…into his racial thinking will improve the way Richard Wagner's late works are performed. Biliography Katz, Jacob. The Darker Side of Genius: Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1986. Seaton, Douglass. Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition. Mountainview, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1991. Stein, Leon. The Racial Thinking of Richard Wagner. New York: Philisophical Library Inc., 1950. Weiner, Marc A. Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.