LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Wagner (Wagner, Siegfried - Composer): German Empire
built 256 days ago
Wagner (Wagner, Siegfried - Composer) also shows up in the Retriever categories:
Wagner (Northeast Conference) , and more.
Wagner (Northeast Conference) , and more.
Wagner is here referring to a paragraph that appears on page 152 of Volume 1 (In the English translation) of Freytag. While this says that: "He has not revealed himself to [the Jews]...by the smallest word" and ... remained “silent”, it makes no mention of Jews as birds. Nor does any such reference appear elsewhere in Freytag (Nor in the original German). This means that Wagner has interpolated the idea from elsewhere. So what? Well, lets just have a look at what Wagner means by the “good man” and God.
Source:
Wagner's rhetoric, lacking the Arnoldian or possibly Leavisite strain on which Johnson draws, is less morally fraught than Johnson's, and more purely racist. Does that let Johnson off the hook? Doubtless he would claim as much, but other aesthetic moralists have been less sure. George Steiner, who defers to no man in what he himself has called "the worship (the word is hardly exaggerated) of the classic," finds himself at the tormented twilight of his life baffled by the example of the culture-loving Germans of the mid-twentieth century, Wagner's heirs, "who sang Schubert in the evening and tortured in the morning." He confesses that he is "haunted more and more by the question, 'Why did the humanities not humanize?' I don't have an answer." But that is because the question is wrong.
Source:
This means that there are thousands of Germans & even more thousands of Wagner-Fans worldwide who will never get a seat for one of Bayreuth’s celebrated productions. Or even for a production-disaster like Christoph Schlingenseif’s Parsifal, gasping out its lungs this August.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
German Empire