What exactly was behind him . Theres great admiration. Firstly shot fog. Now. Why was the german nazi dictator such a huge wagner fan to be sure in german culture, theres 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 bach. Marians pay him homage worldwide. But hitler slab of wagner and his work was extreme. Why did wagner fascinate him so much . Here are 7 reasons. Hitler loved heroic tales. Log in as dramatic opera has reflected hitlers view of himself as an all powerful victor. O hitlers on dash dreams of becoming an artist. It goes, he shut the mo. I screwed hitler who always saw himself as an artist. I now felt a kind of aesthetic affinity with richard wagner. Wagner gosh, good hitler and wagner were both anti semites, wagner demonized jews. Blaming them for everything that only reinforced hitlers own anti semitism. Wagners by white festival energized hitler ever taught, he considered to borrow at festival the only vacation he had during the year. Hitler apparently drew strength from wagners works. The wagner is were a surrogate family for hitler killed us. He wasnt the food or at all. Galle fuqua, wagners approach became the soundtrack of dictatorship, nazi party rallies and air rates, and the news reels of german propaganda. They were accompanied by wagners office war as a theatrical production. Wagner encouraged hitlers megalomania huge orchestras and riveting harmonies, ah, has ever been breton background music for megalomania, for gross in vaughan. But 1st, who was squish out wagner . Anyway . Born in 1813 in leipzig. Hes considered both a genius and an ego maniac. His ambition was to recreate opera as a total work of art with he called because im to const back on like most oper, composers. He insisted on writing his own libretto 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 opera that ran for up to 16 hours. Wagner had an imposing Festival Hall built him by what . A temple for his music his opera set new standards and became world famous. Ah, he had wagner died in 1883. But to this day, the composer is still revered by millions. The festival holland by void as the place of pilgrimage for wagnerian from around the world. For a month, each summer, only wagners works are performed. Wagner, wagner, wagner, nothing but wagner. So back to our question, why did hitler idolized cat wagner . Lets 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 im 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 theres also the subject matter which is rooted in germanic met. Whats that in itself . Spoke to hitler, but there was also the idea of redemption, result of overcoming adverse reality ctm reality on so right now. Ancient germanic heroic sagas, staged with powerful imagery. In the legendary 16 hour ring of the nibbling godson, men fight over the rhinegold. A material that imparts absolute power. Oh, the opera lohengrin revolves around a legendary knight 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 live lawn green captivated me, immediately my youthful enthusiasm for the by horse master knew no bounds again and again, i was drawn to his works in 19 o 5 hitler attended the production of he and see wagners opera about a brave roman politician who wants to save his people. It encouraged hitlers tendency towards megalomania. This village did not off hitlers 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. Deacon signed by law and hitler on in a kind of rapturous vision under the influence of that performance who could described his idea for germanys future. Caesar, the n. C. O fuel. 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 forbes. Oh, but the n cs rise ends in an inglorious fall, the people turn against him and the hero dies tragically. Is that a suitable role model . Okay, doll particular the so hitler said last, i have learned from ramseys fate and because ramsey failed, i thought, well, he had no power structure, no party behind him, does he . He didnt have a powerful force behind entropy. And like hitler later had the brown shirts out of the party in 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 thats why it cant happen to him. Interesting argument. Hitler loved heroic figures like low and clean and pnc and wagners operas fuel hitlers quest for power. Hitlers damaged artistic dreams found refuge in wagner. Long before he plunged europe into war, hitler tried his hand as a painter. He thought 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 need by selling his own watercolor paintings for life and may be of he gotten into art School History would have turned out differently. Its useless to contemplate really, but sometimes you do wonder what would have happened if we 11 in 19 o 8. He tried his hand as a composer attempting to complete wagners unfinished opera. The land dash neat little hitler said i will complete what wagner could not have talked to. Of course he failed right from the beginning because he had no craft on her. He didnt 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 shot wagners anger toward james as early as 1850. 00. He wrote a hate filled pamphlet titled judaism and music, lamenting what he called the corrosive influence of the jews on german culture for over varden. The accusations were that there had been a Terrible Development in wagners opinion that the jews had gained too much power. God to bye. You didnt call punishments and he claimed it was obvious that jewish composers were innately unproductive the zion, that they simply copied what others did for lack of their own creative productivity were not muffin was under the former wagners wife, cosima herself, a bitter anti semite noted wagners hatred of jews in her diaries he says, in violent jest, that old jews should earn in a performance of norton. Ah, is this anti semitism reflected in wagners works . Jones 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, yes 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, cant he says all is control. Can anyone sing like that . Thats just offer me here. I think thats what wagner is parodying here. Hot podium from mark. Oh. 2 0, in 2017, the violet festival saw its 1st of her production by a jewish director. Australian very kosky home, right in on the difficult subject matter. In his, my singer a jewish singer is hunted down. Im not dealing with jewish culture. Im 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 make him the jew in my collection. And kosky production holds mud accountable. Ah, i believe wagner has created his own personal hell. Now hes 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 thats the position that i think 5 in. Im not sure where he can get out of that. 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, thats a provocation. Eulley gorgie of the band hall, flint was shocked when he came across wagners anti jewish pamphlet. Mackwood. Strange that the tempest i thought i must have misunderstood something. That is this really the same guy . Is this the composer, the wagner, your law, that the thing or a sick person with the same name, co windham glen . Well, it was the same person like a balloon. Wow. Spun to do this week. Wagner, moody, gorgeous response was to reshape musical motifs from wagner into a cynical klezmerson about the love of an israeli for a girl from by voice. And everyone awake, then i think that you are pharmacists, apartments before me. Wagner is a symbol of german anti semitism, boston 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. Its 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, wagners music was boycotted for decades, but in 2001, conductor daniel baton been ignored that and played the overture to tristan and decided as an encore in jerusalem a scandal. I now a group of oper, musicians and television has ventured its very own exploration of the sharpness work. I was speaking with another conductor on an israeli conductor. I said ongoing israel still my 1st time in israel and he said, oh, well im, what are you doing there . I said its an oper called currently, and he said, do you have security . Do you have a body guard . Hinder you from wagner oper, party phone is a heathen who is damned to seduce men for all eternity. Here she becomes a goddess. Its a courageous and contemporary approach to wagner. Me . Oh, the once i got there everybody would definitely open to the idea because started a dialogue about what wagner really means and, and why hes boy carded and everybody had an opinion. Israel, some people think they absolutely should play it and 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. We had wagner had his own Festival Hall built here exclusively for his offers. He created a family home here named house van 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. Diverted to beyond the wagnerian auto. Hitler came to buy void for the 1st time. Very early in 1923. Yes. Debarred 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 composers, descendants, wagners daughter in law, vinny fled, wagner remembered hitlers visits fondly. Ah. M. A talked that he considered the weekend by roy is his only Vacation Days in the whole year at as or by whats been noticed. He enjoyed the time in by royce and generally tried to delegate any tasks that came his way. Oh god, 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. Its done with my. He usually stood in the car or and at the entrance to the festival hole where i greeted him, he, oh dear sheila be so kind and come to the window, shouted d for a crowd than hitler stepped up to the side window of the royal portal and greeted his onlookers. Hitler last visited by lloyd in 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, wounded wagner for consolation. Wagner, for war moron. The wagner were a surrogate family for hitler. The butner family was entranced by the fema glitch at wagner, son in law, houston steward chamberlain introduced at of hitler to the wagner family. Hitler admired chamberlains racist and anti semitic view. Beginning in 1936, hitler moved into the composers 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. Bon playdoh foreign bond fleet, which had wagner sons. Equally died in 1930. His wife had took over as festival director. Hitler continued to find a warm, free place to stay. In calmer, he actually came here too. I almost want to say to enjoy family life. Actually just to see the children didnt pay so enjoyed being around the children. And they called him uncle voice, especially for the sons 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 unlocked from his surrogate sons. Yeah, he does. 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 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 goose gazette, off their mom and vin of hit. The art and supporter of National Socialism was simply enchanted by her prominent friend. Ah, ha, ha, ha ha. He wasnt the fuor at all. How can i never experienced anything for beating about him . Thats the strange thing. You know, he had this absolute, austrian sensibility and warm hall axes tucked on that m. O. After 1945 vinegar, id wagner was put on trial. Indeed, not suffocation 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 distance themselves from the dark. Chapter jennifer had remained true to her beliefs, unapologetically, inviting old nazi leaders to her house. They might have yeah. We old National Socialists found a new code name off to the war form because you couldnt talk about him in public to me. So if we wanted to talk about him, we called him usa, which stood phones as daily got at all. Ill bless it at all. The wagners a true surrogate family for hitler. Wagners music, the soundtrack of dictatorship, oh, madness, bombastic, music could be used perfectly for hitlers political goals. These enormous, this enormous impact monism of the music, the lyrics, the story lines with which you can overwhelm the listeners mon did to her. That was after all, he got the heart of nazi propaganda and calendar and s propaganda ah, for the opening of the annual tardy conference. The overture of hitlers beloved degree and see pathos and bombast, lindsay shoe, in boost issue. But if you look at the infamous Party Congress film by denny lee finch dawes, triumph of the will. Or what albert spare 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 got screwed from wagner, composed music with great pathos. For hitler, the soundtrack of dictatorship, wagner encouraged hitlers megalomania, hitlers fantasies of redeeming. The german guys were really stirred up by wagners music. Ah, ever been better background music for megalomania. Gross vaughan, if you want to have kind of really, really big, grand music. It does kind of fit with those kind of fantasies. Darkness was listening to wagners music can sometimes touch deep parts of your soul that you perhaps werent aware of until then for the existence. I think its 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 wagners 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 muttering. 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 fathers music reinforce hitlers pathological side, a kind of accelerant for hitler sick brain. And how can music be life threatening . I think its 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 its taken away from the lovers who cannot reach each other good that, that get down. Lose. So again, get the same tension as before. At the tone again, maybe even waiting for, for 5 hours. Which point everything to says a little. Soon, 5 hours of delayed gratification. And when released finally comes, its in the form of death. Its is kind of rather morbid malaysian all 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, most of he always had suicidal thoughts up there when he was a difficult points with when he was in danger of failing him off, he would say that he would end it, hold the and brutally shoot himself to she uses that was always one of his light motifs. This any finally carried it out in the bunker. In 1945 will grab any need, he tottered. And even then wagner played an important part, accompanied by the strains of zeke feeds funeral march from gutter them along. The fearless, miserable end was announced on the radio. 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 youre also willing and able to look at the other side of the coin which does exist to the talk. Do you see . Oak gaped is going to mel for i can imagine dealing with wagner. 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