ArchiveOctober 2023

I’ve recently read two older Wagner books that lend insight not only into their subject topics, but into the times in which they were written.  These are Wagner’s Parsifal, by Maurice Kufferath (Henry Holt 1904), and The Racial Thinking of Richard Wagner, by Leon Stein (Philosophical Library 1950). Maurice Kufferath was a Belgian music critic and later director of Théâtre de la Monnaie.  In his...