Ambition in Richard Wagner and His Legacy

Wagner’s music, political pursuit, and his value have been commonly discussed together. It becomes a question of what was Wagner influenced by and what was the effect of it. The focus of this paper will be mainly on Richard Wagner, the Third Reinch, and Wagner’s Bayreuth Festival. The topic of this paper will be discussing how some of Wagner’s most influential childhood experience influenced his future pursuit in different field and how did his work mostly influence the later generations. This paper will be researching on Wagner’s family’s influence on Wagner, how he was encouraged to build Bayreuth festival, why and how did Nazi use Wagner’s music as their political propaganda, and how Wagner’s legacy is being perceived during the post-war period. The research method of this paper is based on first hand and secondary hand resource and evidence analysis. The result is that people and ideology who influenced Wagner at a young age continue to show an influence in war time and post-war period German.