Klarinet Archive - Posting 000208.txt from 1998/10

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Re: Wagner
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:55:37 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.24
> Subj: Re: [kl] Wagner

>
> In a message dated 10/1/98 12:52:17 PM, LeliaLoban@-----.com writes:
>
> <<published in a music journal in 1850 under the pen name of "K.
> Freigedank.">>
>
> I find it amusing that he did not have the cahones to publish under his own
> name.

Not really. "Freigedank" means "Freethinker" and it was not at all
uncommon at that time for anyone who posted a right-wing comment
to sign it as "Freethinker." Later when the article was published
again, it was under his own name.

>
> >>while Hitler valued German music above all other music, he
> disliked Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart.) Again, what about Mendelsohn? He
> changed his name to Mendelsohn-Bartholdy because he was a Jew.
>
No he didn't and no he wasn't. The name change was supposed to be
to Bartholdy because Felix's father did not want the son bearing
a name of such obviously Jewish origin (Moses Mendelssohn was, at
that time, one of Europe's most important philosophers and all knew
that he was Jewish), and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was a Lutheran
Prostestant and should not be referred to as a Jew. He was converted
at the age of 14 and he, therefore, severed his ties to Judaism.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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