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Burning Down · 04-12-2013, 05:17 PM

I felt this way for a long time about Richard Wagner. Wagner was a German nationalist, very anti-Semitic and generally a white supremacist. He was Hitler's favourite composer of all time because he promoted the same ideals about attaining the pure German society, and Hitler made Wagner the official music of Germany and the Nazi Party. For many years, his music was banned in Israel.

Now I'm just ambivalent about all of that because he does have some really great compositions.

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Burning Down The Music Guru. Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Beyond the Wall Posts: 4,858	I felt this way for a long time about Richard Wagner. Wagner was a German nationalist, very anti-Semitic and generally a white supremacist. He was Hitler's favourite composer of all time because he promoted the same ideals about attaining the pure German society, and Hitler made Wagner the official music of Germany and the Nazi Party. For many years, his music was banned in Israel. Now I'm just ambivalent about all of that because he does have some really great compositions.