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Wagner has the most villainous reputation of any figure in the arts. He is often held to have inspired Hitler's murderous anti-Semitism, and an army of ruthless mercenaries-the Wagner Group-has taken its name from him. Yet many of the worst things laid to his charge are based on misconstruction or even fabrication: on a letter he never wrote, or opinions he never expressed. Key passages in Cosima Wagner's diaries have been misinterpreted through failure to check their background. In Wagner: The Invention of a Monster, Derek Hughes re examines this controversial figure, tracing the progressive falsifications of his opinions from the 1960s to the present day. There is much new research into the early reception and understanding of his operas, and Hughes contrasts modern assessments of the composer with those current in Wagner's own era, and then during the Third Reich. Ultimately, the book reaches a perhaps surprising conclusion: many modern critics see more Nazism in Wagner than the Nazis ever did.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Texts and Abbreviations
Section I. Rabid and Virulent
Chapter 1: The Accusations
Chapter 2: A Pogrom in Russia
Chapter 3; A Theatre Fire
Section II. The Road to 'Das Judenthum in der Musik'
Chapter 4: Meyerbeer
Chapter 5: Revolution
Chapter 6: 'Das Judenthum in der Musik'
Section III : Jewish Villains?
Chapter 7: Tannhäuser and Lohengrin
Chapter 8: The Ring Alberich and Mime
Chapter 9: The Jew in the Thornbush
Chapter 10: Parsifal. Rassenschande?
Section IV: Views of Wagner to 1945
Chapter 11: Alberich and Mime. Two Early Views
Chapter 12: Alberich and Mime. Further Early Views
Chapter 13: Die Meistersinger, from Wagner to Hitler
Chapter 14: Parsifal. The Fortunes of Kundry
Chapter 15: Wagner's Reputation
Section V. Wagner without Sensationalism
Chapter 16: Race (1)
Chapter 17: Jewish Genes
Chapter 18: Race (2)
Chapter 19: Good Jews and Jewish Friends
Chapter 20: Nationalism
Chapter 21: Jews in the Press. Three Case Studies
1. Usury
2. Darabani
3. A Harsh Winter
Appendix
Fotor Judaïcus: A Cautionary Tale
Wagner and 'the Jew Guggenheim'
Bibliography
