In his early years, the future Nazi leader drafted an opera based on an unfinished work by Wagner. Now, the musical manuscript is on display for the first time. Opera, Nazism, Hitler and the Holocaust have a complex history. With the playing of the Rienzi Overture at Hitler’s Nazi Party rallies in the 1930s, Wagner and German opera became forever associated with the propaganda, evil and horrors of the Third Reich.
But beyond Wagner’s music, many might be surprised to learn that, when he was 20 years old, Adolf Hitler himself wrote an opera.
Wieland der Schmied (Wieland the Smith) was drafted by the future Nazi leader in 1908 and based on an unfinished work of the same name by German composer Richard Wagner – his admiration for whom is well- documented.
In his first volume of Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote: “At the age of twelve, I saw… the first opera of my life, Lohengrin. In one instant I was addicted. My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth Master [Wagner] knew no bounds.”
Now, a sheet from the manuscript is on display in Austria in a new exhibition of artefacts from the dictator’s early life, showing how his past shaped his ideology. A piano sketch of the first page was made by one of young Hitler’s few friends, August Kubizek....
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Poster Comment:
"one of young Hitler's few friends" -- does that have any basis in fact, or is it a gratuitous swipe?
In other musical news, look at the mystery-meat freak they're trying to turn Bach into:
https://www.classicfm.com/composers/bach/experts-created-true-face/
His portraits all show him as light-skinned with ruddy cheeks or a normal light-tan caucasian skin tone. They're grotesquely darkening him in these artists' conceptions -- and you know it's political. I don't think it's paranoia. They're trying to force black car interiors on as many customers as possible, and when I first hunted my present model of laptop it was extremely difficult to find a good one that wasn't solid black. (Among its many other great assets, it's a 'champagne silver' metallic hue.
I'm telling you, they're forcing the 'black is beautiful' mentality on us like it was still 1965 -- indeed, the whole establishment is still stuck in that era. They nigged Cheddar Man and now they're doing it to the greatest artistic genius of the ages to show their burning oedipal hatred of whitey. They're crazy, dangerous kooks!