Das Judenthum in der Musik

WAGNER, RICHARD

J. J. Weber

Leipzig

1869

FIRST EDITION

Freimann 257

Wagner makes the charge that the Jew is bereft of true artistic creation; admitting the Jew to the world of art results in pernicious consequences. It has been suggested that Wagner's anti-Semitic rages were motivated by jealousy of his contemporary, the conductor Giacomo Meyerbeer. Das Judenthum in der Musik is considered to be one of the first formulations of racial anti-Semitism. See P.R. Mendes-Flohr and J. Reinharz, Jewry in Music in: The Jew in the Modern World (1980) pp.268-71.