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Wagner's Tainted Legacy ?

As Neil Fisher (The Times 4.9.09) says in his fascinating article: "There is only one composer who incites as much repulsion as he does reverence, as much adulation as he does suspicion: Richard Wagner". It sems a shame that the man's name should have become synonymous with Nazis when he died in 1883! But I guess that has as much to do with the fact that Wagner was the führer's favourite composer; and the rather questionable relationship between the composer's grandson, Wolfgang and his mother Winifred, with Hitler. Still, can't wait to see The South Bank Show on ITV1 on Sep 13th. And, whatever the fate of the two new directors of Bayreuther Festspiele, Wagner's glorious music will live on - forever. 

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