Wagner, Richard. Das Judenthum in der Musik.

(ANTISEMITICA).

J. J. Weber

Leipzig

1869

FIRST EDITION in book form (previously appeared as an article in the Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik in Zurich, under the pseudonym “K. Friegedenk”)

The brilliant composer Richard Wagner (1813-83) makes the charge in this blatantly anti-Semitic text, that the Jew is bereft of true artistic creation and to admit him into the world of art would result in the most pernicious consequences. The work is 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.