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In the Footsteps of Wagner
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Abstract
PFITZNER’S problem as a music-dramatist was that he was a follower of Wagner who rejected Wagnerism. At first this may seem a puzzling statement in the light of several obvious parallels. Yet something like the shared admiration for Schopenhauer is put into perspective when a distinction is drawn between the erratic nature of Wagner’s encounter with the philosopher and Pfitzner’s much more systematic attempt to do him justice. The anti-Semitism common to both com posers may appear a more general bond. Yet comparison of their respective statements reveals little of Wagner’s apocalyptic tendencies in Pfitzner’s relentlessly abstract discussions of the subject.
Title: In the Footsteps of Wagner
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Abstract
PFITZNER’S problem as a music-dramatist was that he was a follower of Wagner who rejected Wagnerism.
At first this may seem a puzzling statement in the light of several obvious parallels.
Yet something like the shared admiration for Schopenhauer is put into perspective when a distinction is drawn between the erratic nature of Wagner’s encounter with the philosopher and Pfitzner’s much more systematic attempt to do him justice.
The anti-Semitism common to both com posers may appear a more general bond.
Yet comparison of their respective statements reveals little of Wagner’s apocalyptic tendencies in Pfitzner’s relentlessly abstract discussions of the subject.
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