Klarinet Archive - Posting 000412.txt from 2004/01

From: Jesse Rogers <jar2321@-----.rr.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wagner and anti -Semitism in Europe
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:47:10 -0500

Don Hatfield wrote:
I think I lean back to two previous statements from Joe Wakeling's email...
"But of course in modern times those stereotypes don't necessarily apply and
we are not obliged to interpret them in such a way." How did Toscanini and
other musicians look at Wagner at Bayreuth in the 1880's or 1890's...did
society of the time perceive the anti-Semitism?

Last winter I attended a symposium on the Brahms OP. 120 at Johns
Hopkins. One of the panelists, Walter Frisch spoke of Brahms' chamber
music and chamber music in Europe at the time. He portrayed Brahms' as
a counter to the "New German" school of Wagner/Liszt. Brahms was tarred
as a "Chamber music" composer by critics of the 80's and 90's, even his
symphonies were considered to be “Over powered monumental chamber
music”. Frisch went on to say that chamber music was considered to be
for the bourgeois liberal (Jewish) audience, not the Noble
Conservatives. Critics attacked Brahms' music as bourgeois liberal and
semitic.
Jesse Rogers
Columbus, OH

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