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ah. # what exactly was behind hit those great admiration, firstly shot fog. now, why was the german nazi dictator such a huge wagner found to be sure in german culture, there's not really any getting around wagner to this day. his works are celebrated by thousands every year at the legendary by white festival, and his fans known as back marian's pay him homage worldwide. but hitler's lover wagner and his work was extreme. why did wagner fascinate him so much? here are 7 reasons. hitler loved heroic tales. wagner's dramatic oper as reflected hitler's view of himself as an all powerful victor. o hitler's own dashed dreams of becoming an artist. hitler,

josie shut the mo i screwed hitler, who always saw himself as an artist, i know, felt a kind of aesthetic affinity with richard wagner. wagner, good hitler and wagner were both anti semite. wagner, demonized jews blaming them for everything that only reinforced hitler's own anti semitism. wagner's by white festival energized hitler. m. a. t. he considered the borrowed festival the only vacation he had during the year. hitler apparently drew strength from wagner's works. the wagner is we're a surrogate family for hitler killed us. he wasn't the fuor at all. gail food, wagner's approach became a soundtrack of dictatorship, nazi party rallies and air rates. and the news reels of german propaganda. they were accompanied by wagner's office

war as a theatrical production. wagner encouraged hitler's megalomania huge orchestra's and riveting harmonies. ah, has ever been better background music for megalomania, for gross in vaughan. but 1st, who was shout wagner anyway? born in 1813 in leipzig. he's considered both a genius and any go maniac. his ambition was to recreate opera as a total work of art with he called because i'm to const back on like most oper composers. he insisted on writing his own the bretty along with the scores. and he created bombastic productions. he was the 1st to hide the orchestra down in a pit, and to put the audience in darkness. listening to operate that ran for up to 16 hours. wagner had an imposing festival hall built on by white a temple for his music his opera set new standards and

became world famous. they had wagner died in 1883. but to this day, the composer is still revered by millions. the festival holland, by avoid as the place of pilgrimage for wagnerian, from around the world. for a month, each summer, only wagner's works are performed. wagner, wagner, wagner, nothing but wagner. so back to our question, why did hitler idolized we had fog? let's take a closer look at those 7 reasons. hitler loved germanic heroic sagas, and thought that no one explored them as well as the shunt wagner. ah, listen to me. so i'm on the one hand, of course there is the music that overwhelming tonal language of the hot wagner, which can penetrate very deeply into the soul. oh, but then there's also the subject matter which is rooted in germanic met. what's

that in itself spoke to hitler's vision, but there was also the idea of redemption, result of overcoming adverse reality, city of marietta, 18 or so right now. ancient germanic heroic sagas, staged with powerful imagery. in the legendary 16 our ring of the nibbling godson, men fight over the rhinegold, a material that imparts absolute power. oh, the opera low in green, revolves around a legendary night fighting for the trust of his beloved elsa. it made hitler wagner fan in 19 o one. o in his book, mine comes. he related the sense of awakening at the age of 12. o, as, as the 1st opera of my life lawn, glean captivated me immediately my youthful enthusiasm for the by hordes master knew no bounds. again, again, i was drawn to his works. in 19 o 5, hitler attended

a production of he and see wagner's opera about a brave roman politician who wants to save his people. it encouraged hitler's tendency towards megalomania. this village did not off hitler's childhood friend cubic sec said that after a performance of renzi at the lense, municipal theatre of the 2 climbed up fine bag mountain at night digging signed by law and hitler on, in a kind of rapturous vision under the influence of that performance so could described his idea for germany's future. these are the n c o. a simple man of the people who wants to save the roman empire from decadence. hitler saw himself in a similar role as the savior of germany. jamante shove, how someone manages to get at least part of the population behind him through speaking rhetoric, christmas, or whatever that was inspirational for him. da swafford in for business. oh,

but the n c's. rise ends in an inglorious fall. the people turn against him and the hero dies tragically. is that a suitable role model? dall patuto the so hitler said also i have learned from ramsey's fate. and because ramsey failed, i thought, well, he had no power structure, no party behind him, does he? he didn't have a powerful force behind entropy and like hitler later had the brown shirts out of the party and his deal, he had the party, the nazi party, and then the brown shirts last. so he does exactly right what ramsey did wrong, and that's why it can't happen to him. interesting argument. hitler loves heroic figures like low and clean and pnc, and wagner's operas fueled hitler's quest for power. hitler's damaged artistic dreams found refuge in wagner. long before he plunged europe into war, hitler tried his hand. peter,

it's lots he. hitler saw himself primarily as an artist and not necessarily as a politician. hitler twice applied unsuccessfully to the academy of fine arts in vienna. he made ends meet by selling his own watercolor paintings with i've been, may be of he gotten into art school history would have turned out differently. it's useless to contemplate really, but sometimes you do wonder what would have happened if we have them. in 19 o 8, he tried his hand as a composer attempting to complete wagner's unfinished opera. v. lunde dash neat little hitler said i will complete. what wagner could not adopt, of course he failed right from the beginning because he had no craft on her car. he didn't know how to write music or how to develop it at all. bob was he convicted with no artistic success frustrated hitler devoted himself to politics. the failed artist now lived out his passion for culture. as a wagner fan,

hitler and wagner were both and he suddenly. # was it wounded pride or simply envied that fuel to be shut? wagner's anger toward juice, as early as $1850.00. he wrote a hate filled pamphlet, title, judaism and music, lamenting what he called the corrosive influence of the jews on german culture. for varnerin, the accusations were that there had been a terrible development in wagner's opinion that the jews had gained too much power, guarded by eugene coupon assistance, and he claimed it was obvious that jewish composers were innately unproductive zion, that they simply copied what others did or for lack of their own creative productivity were not modern, was under the former partners wife, cosima herself, a bitter anti semite noted wagner's hatred of jews. in her diaries, he says, in violent chest that o choose should burn in

a performance of norton. ah, is this anti semitism reflected in wagner's works? gens might have fish, or he is clear indications, especially in the opera mice dozing on in a singing competition. the character of beck mess are things especially poorly and also steals the other singer songs. ah yacht is his home, gosh me in judaism and music. wagner identifies what he calls wailing as a hallmark of synagogue music. talk become human to op, can't he says all is control. can any one sing like that? that's just awful. me here. i think that's what wagner is parodying here. hot podium fun martin. oh. 2 0, in 2017, the violet festival saw its 1st ever production by

a jewish director. australian very kosky home, right in on the difficult subject matter. in his my stairs in a jewish singer is hunted down. ah, i'm not dealing with jewish culture. i'm dealing with the parody of the anti semitism and the case of big messer, this idea of the send and bach, ah, the sort of the, that the person who bears all the responsibility or all the trauma or of, of the fault is, is what i think is the important thing they making the jew in my collection and kosky production holds not accountable. ah, i believe wagner has created his own personal hell. now he's not like sis office rolling that stone up that hill and rolling his personal hell is that he is

permanently in a witness box having to justify what he did say or what happened to his music. and that's the position that i think violin. i'm not sure what he can get out of that bush. yet wagner continues to be celebrated on a grand scale every year at the bible at festival. an important social event for the rich and famous ah, an anti semitic propagandist, celebrated as a german genius. for many jewish musicians, that's a provocation. eulley gorgie of the band hall front was shocked when he came across wagner, anti jewish pamphlet, mackwood, strange that the ship was for i thought i must have misunderstood something. mister . is this really the same guy? is this the composer the wagner, the la, that's the thing, or a sick person with the same name, crow, linden glacier. well, it was the same person like a balloon. wow. bonham, to do this week. wagner, moody,

gorgeous response was to re shaped musical motifs from wagner into a cynical klezmerson about the love of an israeli for a girl from by void. and every, no wake of anything that you are for mrs. wagner and some before me, wagner is a symbol of german anti semitism. often studio plasma is also a stereotype. newton and we jews in germany. you, we jewish musicians move somewhere in between for official listen, we have to live with. it's somehow only been wagner on the one hand of learners and klezmerson the other as the jewish music. guillotine was the fact that wagner is still celebrated in germany. today. i find that very problematic problem. in israel, wagner's music was boycotted for decades, but in 2001, conductor daniel batten been ignored that and played the overture to tristan and decided as an encore in jerusalem

a scandal. even now a group of oper, musicians, and television has ventured its very own exploration of the shut wagner work. i was speaking with another conductor on an israeli conductor. i said, i am going israel still my 1st time in israel and he said, oh, well, em, what are you doing there? i said it's an opera called country, and he said, do you have security? do you have a body guard, the country from foreigners oper? party phone is a heathen who is damned to seduce men for all eternity. here she becomes a goddess. it's a courageous and contemporary approach to wagner. me? oh,

the once i got there everybody would definitely open to the idea because starting a dialogue about what wagner really means and, and why he's boy carded and everybody had an opinion. israel, some people think they absolutely should play it. some people think absolutely not . but country was a nice way to sort of star dialogue. oh, wagner. the rabbit anti semite was a role model for hitler douglas by light energized hitler. the epicenter of the cult to wagner is by light in southeastern germany. of course, hitler had to be there. they had wagner had his own festival hall built here exclusively for his offers. he created a family home here named house von fleet. and here he found his final

resting place. ah, who i and barton of the bio voice is too about marius was from what mecca is to a devout muslim. i might be a place you have to go at least once in a lifetime you them to participate in the authentic performance, whole fuel god. here one has the feeling of being at the heart of the matter itself . suicide de wagner. beyond the wagnerian auto hitler came to buy void for the 1st time. very early in 1923. yes. tomorrow from then on, hitler regularly came to buy light in the summer, immersed in a bag nary and frenzy lasting several days. surrounded by the composer's descendants, wagner's daughter in law vinnie fled, wagner remembered hitler's visits fondly. ah. m. a talked that he considered the weekend by roy is his only vacation days in the whole year. as a by was the notion. he enjoyed the timing by royce and generally tried to delegate

any tasks that came his way. oh i mean hancock as well up to shoot. here he was celebrated from house van fleet to the festival hall. nothing but jubilation and triumph. if stung off my he usually stood in the car or and at the entrance to the festival hole where i greeted him, he got her voice. dear philo! be so kind and come to the window, shouted the euphoric crowd than hitler stepped up to the side window of the royal portal and greeted his onlookers. hitler last visited by a boy to 1940. i hear the wings of the goddess of victory russell. those were his words of farewell. then the war dominated, everything. europe was in ruins, but hitler decided the festival should continue. the performers were exempted from

war service. the audience made up of the war, wound it. wagner for consolation. wagner, for war moron! the wagner were a surrogate family for hitler. # the butner family was entranced by the fema richard wagner, son in law, houston steward chamberlain introduced at of hitler to the wagner family. hitler admired chamberlain's racist and anti semitic view. beginning in 1936, hitler moved into the composer's estate for the festival season. in house seek fleet built by wagner sun here hitler could spread out and relax about yahoo! with here he was completely autonomous, but still close to house band played from bond fleet, which had her son's equally died in 1930. his wife finished fred took over as festival director. hitler continued to find a warm,

free place to stay. oh, good karma. he actually came here too. i almost want to say to enjoy family life. actually just to see the children he so enjoyed being around the children. and they called him uncle voice, especially for the son's voice, gung and violent. the dictator was a kind of surrogate father with visions for the opera for the festival, and for all of germany. and he demanded a locked from his surrogate son's. you don't you hear the fireplace behind me of i, hitler was a bit of a pyromaniac. he liked to sit there until the early morning hours, who in more v london both gone, always had to listen to his endless monologues as vulcan, wagner told me, lord, they actually wanted to go to bed and sleep better, but they had to keep him company here on my hear the gazande gazette after mom and benefit,

the artist supporter of national socialism was simply enchanted by her prominent friend. ah, ha, ha, ha ha. he wasn't the fuor at all. how can i never experienced anything for beating about him? that's the strange thing. you know, he had this absolute, austrian sensibility and warm casual access tucked on that m. o. after 1945 verified, wagner was put on trial. indeed, not to vacation proceedings where she had to justify her closeness to hitler, the management of the festival, past to her sons. they tried to salvage what they could and distanced themselves from the dark chapter. jennifer had remained true to her beliefs, unapologetically, inviting, old nazi leaders to her house. it might have. yeah. we old national socialists found a new code name after the war form because you couldn't talk about him in public to

me. so if we wanted to talk about him, we called him usa, which stood phones azalea at all. i'll bless it at all. the wagner's a true surrogate family for hitler. wagner's music, the soundtrack of dictatorship, oh, madness, bombastic, music could be used perfectly for hitler's political goals. these enormous, this enormous impact monism of the music, the lyrics, the story lines with which you can overwhelm the listeners. one to, to her. that was after all, he got the heart of nazi propaganda and calendar and s propaganda for the opening of the annual tardy conference. the overture of hitler's beloved gillian c, pathos and bombast. lindsey sh, who didn't boost issue,

but if you look at the infamous party congress film by any leaf inch dawes triumph of the will. or what albert sh bear did with the cathedral of light falmouth submitted. those were opera productions deal. newsreel footage of an air raid becomes a heroic performance with the addition of the ride of the val carries does follow all this insincere exalted and melodramatic stock under which the nazis used for their propaganda in a clever way. can all be combined quite well with wagner, operas and gum screwed from wagner, composed music with great pathos. for hitler, the soundtrack of dictatorship, wagner encouraged hitler's megalomania, hitler's fantasies of redeeming. the german guys were really stirred up by wagner's

music. ah, ever been better background music for megalomania. grossing vaughan, if you want to have been a really, really big grand music. it does kind of fit with those kind of fantasies. darkness was listening to wagner's music can sometimes touch deep parts of your soul that you perhaps weren't aware of until then for the existence. i think it's like any drug and wagner is a drug key that all enjoyed moderation. it can make you healthy. and also in excess it can make you sick because doctors in the 19th century had already suspected this and they attributed a devastating effect to wagner's music, hysteria, madness, and even death. indeed tristan a diesel, that in particular let a few people to their graves. the 1st tristan singer died in 1865, and a so called wagner delirium. in 1911, there was another wagner victim, conductor felix muffin. he suffered a heart attack during

a performance of the opera and died 50 years later, conductor hughes of chi about collapsed and died on the same spot. did father's music reinforce hitler's pathological side, a kind of accelerant for hitler sick brain. and how can music be life threatening? i think it's because of the harmonies, basically the whole of the 5 hour long opera is in some ways are kind of heavily sexualized kind of harmonic trick. as the whole of the 2nd act makes you empty, desperate for the musical climax, and then it's taken away from her, the lovers who cannot reach each other. ah figure that get down lose. so then get the same tension as before. that the tonic and maybe even waiting for

the 5 hours, which point everything to says a little soon, 5 hours of delayed gratification. and when released finally comes, it's in the form of death. it's just kind of rather morbid, combination of eroticism and death. wish that makes wagner kind of her potent and a little bit scary. the hope for release from earthly suffering. a yearning that hitler also knew, well. i had more of he always had suicidal thought up video. and when he was at difficult points, when he was in danger of failing him, of he would say that he would end it, hold the and brutally shoot himself to that was always one of his light motifs. and he finally carried it out in the bunker in 1945 or grab that he needed tubs. and even then, wagner played an important part, accompanied by the strains of zeke feeds funeral march from gotta them alone. the

fearless, miserable end was announced on the radio. ah, there truly is a dangerous closeness between the 2 men and association. you should be aware of my uncommon dot. you can only be a wagnerian with a clear conscience. if you're also willing and able to look at the other side of the coin which does exist to the talk, do you see? oh keep it going to mel for i can imagine dealing with wagner like with cigarettes, with a warning on the pac yvonne or cut ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

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