I've been away some time.  But I'm glad to join you again with so many
interesting discussions.

Mats wrote:

>...  Avoid Marc Weiner's "Rickard Wagner and the antisemitic Imagination"
>if you don't can take a great distance to a biograpers biased wiew.

Marc Weiner's book is an excellent book if you want to know more about
a composers's life in it's time or the context.  Musically, Historically,
Philosophically and Psychologically he knows exactly where he's talking
about.  His sources are:  Darwin, Mosse, Bloch, Adorno, Theleweit,
Taruskin, Mann, Said, Wagner and many more.  Of course it's a book written
on a scientific base and naturally you have to keep in mind it's -also- a
book about anti-semitism for it bears the description Richard Wagner and
the Anti-Semitic Imagination.  It's a nice readable book.

Henny van der Groep
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