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A.N Wilson, TLS
'The Wagner Clan ... deserves its place on the groaning shelf, beside the various histories of Bayreuth, and biographies of the Wagners.'
Tim Martin, The Independent on Sunday
'It offers both a fascinating introduction to laymen and a wealth of new information to the most dedicated Wagnerians.'
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In this his last book, Jonathan Carr (1942-2008), the biographer of Helmut Schmidt and Gustav Mahler, has written a brilliant collective biography of the Wagner family. He tells the story of Richard Wagner's extraordinary music and of his family's fights over the ownership and control of the Bayreuth music festival.
Wagner backed the 1848 revolutions, but had failed to learn from the 1789 French Revolution which, as Carr points out, "gave a mighty boost to the cause of Jewish emancipation." Wagner's repellent anti-Semitism stains his fame.
Also, the Wagner family was closer to Hitler than any other German family was. They knew Hitler as `Uncle Wolf', so often did he visit their Bayreuth home. The family welcomed his patronage and never distanced themselves from his politics. Later, they showed no remorse and accepted no responsibility for Nazi crimes.
Carr concludes that Wagner was not `particularly to blame for the Holocaust', largely because there were so many other guilty parties. Nor was his music especially palatable to the Nazis, although they used his `Ride of the Valkyries' as sound track to newsreels of their air raids, as did Francis Ford Coppola to scenes of US helicopter attacks on Vietnam in `Apocalypse Now'.
Wagner's great opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen "shows how disaster strikes those spurred by greed and lust for power." Wagner's rebellious grand-daughter Friedelind later called Hitler `Alberich-Hitler', identifying him with the Ring's lethal Nibelung, whose hunger for power sparks the saga that ends in the apocalypse of Götterdämmerung.
Wagner backed the 1848 revolutions, but had failed to learn from the 1789 French Revolution which, as Carr points out, "gave a mighty boost to the cause of Jewish emancipation." Wagner's repellent anti-Semitism stains his fame.
Also, the Wagner family was closer to Hitler than any other German family was. They knew Hitler as `Uncle Wolf', so often did he visit their Bayreuth home. The family welcomed his patronage and never distanced themselves from his politics. Later, they showed no remorse and accepted no responsibility for Nazi crimes.
Carr concludes that Wagner was not `particularly to blame for the Holocaust', largely because there were so many other guilty parties. Nor was his music especially palatable to the Nazis, although they used his `Ride of the Valkyries' as sound track to newsreels of their air raids, as did Francis Ford Coppola to scenes of US helicopter attacks on Vietnam in `Apocalypse Now'.
Wagner's great opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen "shows how disaster strikes those spurred by greed and lust for power." Wagner's rebellious grand-daughter Friedelind later called Hitler `Alberich-Hitler', identifying him with the Ring's lethal Nibelung, whose hunger for power sparks the saga that ends in the apocalypse of Götterdämmerung.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Readable and interesting book, especially for someone (like me) with little or no prior knowledge about Wagner and his legacy. The narrative flows well and does a nice job of tying in the story of the Wagners with the history of Germany.
Also, there isn't much detail about Wagners music, so it is very accessable to people who have not listened to it before or know anything about it. Infact the narrative cleverly draws you in, and at the end left me wanting to find out more about the music and understand what all the fuss was about.
Also, there isn't much detail about Wagners music, so it is very accessable to people who have not listened to it before or know anything about it. Infact the narrative cleverly draws you in, and at the end left me wanting to find out more about the music and understand what all the fuss was about.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
FROM THE START OF THE FAMILY AND WAGNER'S RELATIONSHIP WITH LISZT AND HIS MEETING WITH COSIMA THE BOOK BRINGS YOU RIGHT UP TO DATE WITH HIS FAMILY FEUDS AND HOW THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN FOUGHT FOR CONTROL OF THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL AND IN MORE REGENT TIMES THEIR CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH HITLER AND THE NAZI PARTY.
A FAIRLY "HEAVY" READ BUT WELL WORTH THE EFFORT FOR WAGNERIANS AND NONE WAGNERIANS ALIKE.
A FAIRLY "HEAVY" READ BUT WELL WORTH THE EFFORT FOR WAGNERIANS AND NONE WAGNERIANS ALIKE.
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