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Old May 13th, 2013 #3
Jean West
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Default Wagner as Moral Pariah

Evil Genius: Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 1 of 4 by Brenton Sanderson



Richard Wagner was a one man artistic and intellectual movement whose shadow fell across all of his contemporaries and most of his successors. Other composers had influence; Wagner had a way of thinking named after him. It has been claimed that “never since Orpheus has there been a musician whose music affected so vitally the life and art of generations.”

(Continues at website.)