Originally posted by Amalie:
Steppenwolf,
What you say I am sure is absolutely right.
However, the fact remains that as a human being as opposed to being one of the greatest composers that ever lived, Wagner really was not a very nice man in spite of what you say.
Steppenwolf,
What you say I am sure is absolutely right.
However, the fact remains that as a human being as opposed to being one of the greatest composers that ever lived, Wagner really was not a very nice man in spite of what you say.
If he really was a one-sided monster, as so many seem to believe, I don't think anyone would have liked him at all. Those who came in contact with him tended to either love him or hate him, but the former no less than the latter. As one of potentially hundreds of examples, take the conductor Herman Levi (a Jew), who wrote a letter to his father in which he said that he got down on his knees everyday and thanked God for allowing him to know such a wonderful, kind, extraordinary man, and that he counted his friendship with Wagner as one of the most precious of his life.
[This message has been edited by Steppenwolf (edited February 17, 2004).]
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