Talk:Elijah (oratorio)

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[edit] Wagner anti-semitism

Wagner's anti-semitism seems overplayed and is very likely POV. Bryan Magee in "The Tristan Chord" very reputably shows that Wager's anti-semitism is no more agregious than any other of his time, he just wrote about it and used it to his own ends in his very public, Wagnerian way. I'll have a better citation soon, but we should rework this. What's the source? Is that from Rosen as well? Fred 13:39, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello, the source is the WP Wagner article - I suggest you check out the extensive discussion there. Opus33 17:55, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I know its been a year, but there should still be an explicit citation for this here. Point to a line in Das Judenthum in der Musik or whatever.

I do find it odd to point out in the article that Wagner didn't like the work musically and then to parenthetically add that anti-semitism led him to that musical opinion. Its playing up a controversy unnecessarily in the wrong place (the controversy belongs in the Wagner articles). Can we focus on Shaw's criticism or did he also have an ulterior motive? DavidRF (talk) 04:43, 5 May 2008 (UTC)