John Cambre claims that although Wagner was "petty, vituperative and
occasionally anti-Semetic", his art "show[ed] none of that".  I don't
believe that is true.  True, perhaps his pettiness did not come through
in his music.  But Wagner endowed the nasty Nibelung in the Ring with a
stereotypic Jewish physiognomy and features, and I suspect he intended his
description to reflect his estimation of the Jewish people.  FWIW I don't
see Wagner as "occasionally" anti-Semitic:  I think he was a thoroughgoing
anti-Semite.

Larry Sherwood