Before we dive into the controversies surrounding Richard Wagner and how we should view him, we first need to grasp an understanding of who Wagner really was. Wagner was a German composer, theater director, and conductor who was well known for his operas that were later classified as “music dramas”. Wagner’s operas, politics, beliefs, writings, and unorthodox lifestyle made him quite the controversial figure during his lifetime. Through one of his most controversial pieces, “Das Judenthun in der Musik” Wagner has developed himself into a person who could be viewed separately with his music because more than just his music had a major impact on the world.
Robert Wagner’s “Das Judenthum in der Musik” is an essay that basically attacks Jews and also attacks musical composers particularly Giancomo Meyerbeer and Felix Mendelssohn which is regarded to by many as a significant landmark of German Anti-Semitism. Wagner elaborates how that Jews were unable to speak European languages properly and how the speech of the Jews sounded like “intolerably jumbled blabber” and a “creaking, squeaking, buzzing snuffle”. Wagner attacked Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer in his essay saying that Mendelssohn’s conservative style was cramping the potential of German music and was “sweet and tinkling without depth”. Meyerbeer was savagely attacked for the
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Wagner was one of the few composer’s Adolf Hitler allowed during the Nazi era and possibly his favorite. Hitler felt a strong bond to Wagner and has even been exclaimed that Hitler’s vision of Germany was manifested in the composer’s music. The Nazi Party heavily promoted Wagner’s operas that had a reflection on a nationalistic world view that displays Nazism which was used for Nazi
Karl Lueger’s, mayor of Vienna, command over the masses through rhetoric and sensitive emblems were the rallying point behind which Hitler was able to gain power over the Nazi’s and keep the people inspire with parades and a sense of patriotism entwined with spirituality. 20. Adolf Lanz Ostara was the work that instilled in Hitler an antisemitism and belief of entitlement of the Aryan race. 21. Wagener’s portrayal of an artist as a misfit from the bourgeois society who can only depend on himself while only pushed forward by the desire to control and manipulate inspired Hitler’s patterns of leadership.
Hitler was seen as a savior to many Germans, hoping Germany would be saved from its severely depressed condition following World War I. Hitler used his power to create laws in order to exclude and dismiss Jews from everyday affairs. Hitler was an excellent writer and public speaker, further aiding in his success in persuading hopeless individuals to abide by his rule, while ultimately grasping complete power over the German people.
On Good Friday 1963, Martin Luther King Jr was arrested for protesting the treatment of African Americans in Alabama. He was sent to solitary confinement in Birmingham Jail. His attorney had passed along a copy of the Birmingham newspaper which consisted of some writing from eight clergymen that commented on the protesting situation with Mr. King. They stated that King’s previous actions and the protest were, “Unwise and untimely” (LA, 174). Because Mr. King was a very thoughtful man, he rarely responded to criticism. However, King felt the need to eloquently dismantle why the clergymen’s comment was so incorrect. King’s main point in this letter is to explain to the clergymen and all people why racial prejudice will not stand in the beautiful United States. With only time on his side, he got to work. Four days later he had written what would go down as “prophetic… diplomatic… and theological” (LA, 174). In King’s letter to the clergymen, ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail, he builds his ethos to both the clergymen and any other reader to understand what type of person he is, but the strategy that creates the most impact is pathos through the child viewpoint questions.
Romantic music inspired two smaller movements: nationalistic music and music about legends. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is a German composer who wrote many pieces on the basis of a story or myth. He revolutionized opera through creativity, discontent with musical formulas and his focus on drama.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) is regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived. He began writing minuets at the age of 5,and by the time he died in 1791 at the age of 35, he had produced 626 cataloged works. “ Mozart has enriched the concerto form with a larger number of masterpieces than any other composer.”1
Mendelssohn was a famous German composer of the Romantic period. Although he was born into a Jewish family and grew up without a religion he soon became a reformed Christian. Mendelssohn was born with the talent to be able to play instruments and make music, but his parents never really supported his talent and didn’t help him to improve his talent. He went on to pursue what he loved to do and that was to compose and conduct music. Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, Germany, 1809.
There are many arguments against allowing undocumented immigrants a path to permanent residence in the United States, and many of them are demonizing, dehumanizing, racist, and xenophobic, and sometimes poorly informed.The arguments that follow are not of that disgusting kind. This case must be considered without denigrating immigrants as ‘illegals’ or lesser people, but while also placing the needs of lawful U.S. citizens and residents first, and ensuring the continued prosperity of the United States of America. Undocumented people should not be allowed a path to permanent residence in the United States, because such actions would financially hurt the government through increased demand on government assistance, possibly invite even more immigration
Richard Wagner does have anti-Semitic pieces of work. Nike Wagner, his great-granddaughter, also brings up claims that Lohengrin is anti-Semitic, saying, “Should we allow ourselves to listen to his works with pleasure, even though we know that he was an anti-Semite?” Journalist Joachim Köhler published Wagner’s Hitler – The Prophet and His Disciple, and addressed the anti-Semitic views of Wagner in his various works, such as his operas. Köhler describes
Thesis: Wolfgang Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor has been admired and analyzed numerous times. Although it has been criticized by many, I believe deeply interpreting this piece will aid in a better understanding of the music during the Classical
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Austrian wunderkind, was an accomplished and magnificently gifted musician. He is attributed with the composition of 22 operas in his 35-year life, but his most successful theatre work was his last. Die Zauberflöte, completed in 1791, was written specifically for the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna. The theatre housed a troupe of actors led by Emmanuel Schikaneder, a versatile actor and writer who crafted the libretto of Zauberflöte and portrayed Papageno at its premiere. Zauberflöte was written in the singspiel operatic style; the libretto is in the vernacular – German – language, spoken dialogue is interspersed with recitative and aria, and there is a folk-like strophic style in the music. Schikaneder had
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was probably the greatest genius in Western musical history. He was born in Salzberg, Austria on January 27, 1756. The son of Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Maria Pertl. Leopold was a successful composer and violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzberg court.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart lived from January 27, 1756 to December 5, 1791. Mozart was a very influential and prolific composer of more than 600 works, including symphonies, concertante, chamber, piano, opera, and choral music. Regarded as a child prodigy, Mozart composed and performed in the European courts from the age of five, and was engaged at the Salzburg court at 17. Mozart’s musical style can be classified as Classical, although he learned from many of his contemporaries throughout his musical career. In order to better understand Mozart’s genius it is best to begin looking at his earliest contributions to the musical world as a child. From there, an exploration of his
Mozart’s Requiem is “one of the most performed and studied pieces of music in history” (Stango, n.d.). The story behind the start of this piece begins with Count Franz von Walsegg, who commissioned a requiem mass for his wife Anna (who had passed away). Throughout his work on this piece, Mozart began to get so emotionally involved with the piece that he believed that he was writing a death mass for himself. Mozart died December 5, 1791, with only half of the Requiem finished (through Lacrimosa). Franz Xaver Süssmayr finished the Requiem based on Mozart’s specifications from notes and what he had already written. The completed work is dated 1792 by Süssmayr and was performed for the first time on January 2, 1793. Mozart’s intent for this
The movie leads us to think that the root of Nazism lay solely with Germany, and that it was evil Germans under Hitler who overthrew innocent Austria and turned it into a fascist nation. Because most Americans are not history buffs on Austria's role in the Anschluss, we tend to believe that The Sound of Music, or perhaps even Schindler's List, presents us with completely factual evidence. In a sense, we have allowed this movie to be a history book that tells the tale of the Anschluss. Because German Nazism is presented so negatively in the movie, of course an American audience will side with the Austrians who are so innocently represented by the VonTrapp family. No one else is there to tell the audience any differently.