Klarinet Archive - Posting 001211.txt from 1998/09

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wagner
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:45:35 -0400

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Edwin V. Lacy wrote:

> Unfortunately, I was also thinking of the fact that Wagner was
> very much a champion of Hitler, and Hitler returned that high
> esteeme to Wagner. It is known that Hitler also had trod those
> same rooms.

Not during Wagner's lifetime he didn't. I'm very confused by the above
statements. Wagner was a champion of Hitler, and Hitler returned that
esteem to Wagner?? A brief lesson in chronology makes this impossible.
Wagner died in 1883. Hitler was not to be born for another 6 years after
that (in 1889), and his serious political activitism did not begin until
he was in his 20's. Ed's statements appear to suggest that Wagner was
somehow acquainted with Hitler, or that maybe Wagner knew who Hitler
was (a mild paradox). Perhaps, Ed, you meant to say that Wagner champ-
ioned Hitler's eventual antisemitic beliefs? It is well-known that
Hitler used Wagner's Teutonic and purist themes/mythology as examples
of his own ideals when defining the "master race."

Neil

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