If Wagner was the cultural and musical chronicler of his time, if he remained a revolutionary activist, he had also gone into the act of police, and if he was finally his master of Bayreuth celebrated as the one of the major artist of his At the time, the illustrious composer did not live before a man made of chair and blood, animated by passions, with a sometimes violent, sometimes facetious, and sometimes tender character.
CHAMBERLAIN Houston Stewart
(born on 9. September 1855 – died on 9. January 1927)
British-born German philosopher, author of various works about political philosophy and natural science
Husband of Eva von Bülow, Richard Wagner’s daughter (in December 1908, which means twenty-five years after Wagner’s death)
Chamberlain’s best known book is the two-volume Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century), published in 1899 more than fifteen years after Wagner’s death), which became highly influential in the pan-Germanic “völkisch” movements of the early 20th century and later influenced the antisemitism of Nazi racial policy. For that, Chamberlain has been referred to as “Hitler’s John the Baptist”.
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