Remembering Richard Wagner
(May 22, 1813–February 13, 1883)
Greg Johnson
472 words
Richard Wagner was born 206 years ago today in Leipzig in the Kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated and appropriated in the North American New Right. I wish to draw your attention to the following writings which have been published at Counter-Currents.
About Wagner
- Kerry Bolton, “Wagner as Metapolitical Revolutionary“
- Jonathan Bowden, “Frankfurt School Revisionism“
- Collin Cleary, “Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
- Jef Costello, “Rage Against the Machine: A Very American Ring Cycle“
- Gabriele D’Annunzio, “Tristan and Isolde“
- Alexander Jacob, “The Aryan Christian Religion and Politics of Richard Wagner” (French translation here)
- Greg Johnson, “Make Rome Great Again: Rienzi in Berlin“
- Greg Johnson, Review of Bryan Magee’s Aspects of Wagner
- Greg Johnson, Review of Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
- Emi Mann Kawaguchi, “Yukio Mishima and Richard Wagner: Art and Politics, or Love and Death“
- Kurwenal, “Wagner, Nietzsche, and the New Suprahumanist Myth,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- John Morgan, “I Saw the World End: Wagner’s Ring in Munich“
- John Morgan, “Boomer Bayreuth: Wagner’s Parsifal at the Festspielhaus in 2018“
- Sir Oswald Mosley, “The Meaning of Wagner’s Ring“
- James J. O’Meara, “My Wagner Problem — and Ours“
- Christopher Pankhurst, “Parsifal and the Possibility of Transcendence“
- Quintilian, “Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen“
- Brenton Sanderson, “Evil Genius: Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
- Deems Taylor, “The Monster” (Portuguese translation here)
- Theberton, “Wagner and Great Art” (Video of the Day)
- Donald Thoresen, “A Life with Wagner“
- Michael Walker, “Roger Scruton’s Death-Devoted Heart,” Part 1, Part 2
- Richard Widmann, “Never Surrender: Wagner on War and Culture“
Relevant to Wagner:
- Kerry Bolton, “Wotan as Archetype: The Carl Jung Essay“
- Jonathan Bowden, “Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: Leni Riefenstahl’s Heir?”
- Collin Cleary, “Asatru as a Living Tradition“
- Collin Cleary, “An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga,” Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, Part XII
- Guillaume Durocher, “Brigitte Haman’s Hitler’s Vienna, Part 3: Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist“
- Alex Graham, “Stanisław Wyspiański’s Wawel Plays“
- Richard J. Herbert, “The Question of Race in Spengler & Its Meaning for Contemporary Racialism” (Spanish translation here)
- Gregory Hood, “Revolution from the Periphery: The Lessons of Nueva Germania”
- Greg Johnson, “The Hero at 150: Remembering Richard Strauss“
- Greg Johnson, Review of The Genius of Valhalla: The Life of Sir Reginald Goodall
- Greg Johnson, “Sir Reginald Goodall: An Apprecation“
- James J. O’Meara, “Our Wagner, Only Better: Harry Partch, Wild Boy of American Music,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- James J. O’Meara, “Review of The Grail: Two Studies“
- James J. O’Meara, “The Bayreuth of Hobo Pythagoreanism: The University of Washington’s Harry Partch Festival”
6 comments
Great list for further study of the cultural and political aspects and influence of the greatest composer (probably artist) of the second half of the 19th century. I have bookmarked this page so I can peruse all this analysis over time. Thanks.
Yes, thank you so much for this list. The richness of the CC archive is amazing. By the way, Michael Walker’s recent review of Scruton’s book on Tristan was excellent. Is there any chance he could also review Scruton’s more recent book on Der Ring, “The Ring of Truth”?
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/04/30/wagner-reclaimed-a-review-of-the-ring-of-truth-by-roger-scruton-part-1/
I am continually amazed at the scholarly content I find here on a near-daily basis. The commentaries on Wagner’s work by Colin Cleary , from the list your provided to honor Wagner’s birth, will keep me busy and entranced daily for another 7 days after reading Part I this morning. And then, on to several of the others.
I find that I have a book in my sprawling, disorderly library on “The Nibelungenlied”, as translated by Margaret Armour and introduced by Franz Schoenberner, printed by Heritage Press in 1961. So, I am curious as to the scholarship here, but I welcome the chance to become acquainted — in my own home, during this period of enforced ‘staying’ at home — with this massive tale. It’s a large tome, beautifully printed, and probably a collector’s item, which I found a year or so ago at my local library sales shelves, probably for under $5. And, I never know, each morning when I open the CC site, what treasures I will find here as well.
I have been a devoted Wagnerian since hearing the sublime Funeral March from Götterdämmerung on the radio one day. From that moment on ‘popular’ music meant nothing to me, but I would spend hours transported by Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal. There is something in The Master’s music that speaks directly to the souls of all who love our people, their history and the great civilisation they built. Not for nothing is this music banned in Israel …
These two were related.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Ranke
Comments are closed.
If you have paywall access,
simply login first to see your comment auto-approved.
Note on comments privacy & moderation
Your email is never published nor shared.
Comments are moderated. If you don't see your comment, please be patient. If approved, it will appear here soon. Do not post your comment a second time.