James Ellis Eriks BredovskisKmarcx Kmarcx Stefano Scaini Andrew PitkinMark Jenkins Conrad Huang This is for all of those who are divided over the composer Richard Wagner. In this documentary, one of my favourite British actors Stephen Fry struggles with both his love for Wagners work and his disgust for the composers anti-Semitism, as he is of Jewish descent and his family lost relatives in Auschwitz. For me, when it comes to me most of my favourite composers of 18th and 19th century classical music are German-speaking (from either what is now Germany and Austria) including most of all Mozart, Beethoven and, my personal favourite, Franz Peter Schubert (who composed my favourite piece, Ave Maria.); my two other favourite composers are of course Vivaldi from Italy and Chopin from what is now Poland. None of them were tainted by the evil of Hitlers Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. For me Wagner is tough to face. I find his music (of the few pieces that I have had the time to listen to) like those of my other favourite German composers to be beautiful and brilliant, but Wagner had a dark side that will forever taint his legacy: he was an anti-Semite, attacking German Jewish composers and ultimately his biggest fans were Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Although Wagners anti-Semitism did not directly lead to Holocaust, the fact that this vile, racist and genocidal regime admired the composer is disturbing. This is why Frys documentary is so interesting: https://m.youtube/watch?v=IfyViSFJS2g
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 04:42:30 +0000
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