Das Judenthum in der Musik
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23185082 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clive Brown (0000-0002-8858-4578, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 474-484 |
| Publication date | 2003-05-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | A Portrait of Mendelssohn (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Yale University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.12987/yale/9780300095395.003.0051 |
| OpenAlex | W2482694278 |
| ISBN | 9780300095395 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 5 |
In his 1850 essay Das Judenthum in der Musik, Richard Wagner openly criticized Jews in general and Felix Mendelssohn in particular. In his introduction, Wagner focused on the transformation of the political and social position of the Jews in the first half of the nineteenth century. He then discussed the Jew's characteristics in a manner that showed a repulsive degree of racial loathing and how the Jew expresses himself before arguing that the Jew was constitutionally incapable of true musical creativity. Wagner went on to condemn the music of the synagogue and linked the inevitable artistic impotence of the Jew to Mendelssohn and Giacomo Meyerbeer, two of the most successful musicians of his time.
Art · Art history · Creativity · Literature · Musical · Political science · Politics · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2020 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |