It`s more complicated than just anti-semitism. About Wagner it`s also jealousy toward Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn, jewish composers who were admired since childhood across Europa unlike Wagner who had to fight to impose his music...(Meyerbeer has helped him a lot). It`s also due to the sudden change of the status of the jews there with the Aufklärung (you can find the same anti-semitism in Goethe and others )... |
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