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Showing posts with label Richard Wagner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Wagner. Show all posts

Friday, 7 September 2018

No Denying The Obvious

Richard Wagner said that "the Jew" was "incapable of artistic expression", while Jeremy Corbyn said that a group of British Zionists had "no sense of English irony" despite a lifetime living in the country.

Richard Wagner Had Anti-Semitic Views
Richard Wagner Had Anti-Semitic Views

One was Hitler's favourite composer .... the other is the leader of the UK Labour Party. There is a terrible whiff of the same smell from those two comments.

Friday, 7 November 2014

Treasure Of The Neibelung

When I developed an interest in classical music, I naturally came across the The Song of the Nibelungs aka 'Nibelungenlied', which is a high German epic poem about a dragon-slayer Siegfried at the court of the Burgundians, and the tale of how he was murdered and of his wife Kriemhild's terrible revenge.

The Legend Of The Rheingold
The Legend Of The Rheingold

As a part of the tale, a golden hoard is stolen from Kriemhild, and it is thrown into the Rhine where its known as the 'Rheingold'.  
 

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