Wagner鈥檚 Tainted Legacy with Frank Cottrell Boyce
Richard Wagner was a groundbreaking composer who left a long musical legacy. But he was also an antisemite whose music would become linked to the Nazi party.
Richard Wagner was a romantic, a revolutionary and hostile antisemite. The composer of some of the most enduring and influential classical music, his pieces feature in famous film scores, wedding processions and would go on to soundtrack the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.
History remembers him for his bigoted political essays and 'Here Comes The Bride'. But his story also included a one-sided romance with an eccentric Prince, a decadent life funded by adoring sponsors and scandalous affairs with married women. In this episode, screenwriter and author Frank Cottrell-Boyce joins Tom and Ben to trace the complicated life of one of classical music's most famous composers and place him on the monster scale.
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Produced by Audio Always
Producer: Rufaro Faith Mazarura
Exec Producer: Jo Meek
Sound Design: Craig Edmondson
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- Fri 17 Nov 2023 21:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
