The Darker Side of Genius: Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism

by Jacob Katz

Book Overview

For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption victims of Hitler have also associated Wagner and his music with Nazism to such an extent that in Israel a ban on public performance of that music is upheld to this day. Jacob Katz, a scholar of international repute, approaches the highly charged issue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584652403
• ISBN13: 9781584652403
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"