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The status of Meyerbeer was enviable and envied by many, not only by Wagner. Came from a Jewish family immensely rich with strong influences samuel warde in society and in the art world. Among Meyerbeer, there are bankers, prosperous merchants and industrialists, samuel warde rabbis recognized ... even the lottery in the country was in their hands and made a fortune as providers of Prussian troops. His influence samuel warde on the world of music is obvious: King of the Paris Opera, where he triumphed in grand opera, a genre that did not create but that gave its final shape. In Berlin he held the highest positions in the administration musical. Since 1832 he was Kapellmeister of the Prussian court. In 1843 he was appointed Generalmusikedirektor. The position obtained at the expense of another envious, Spontini, who was fired for political reasons. A decade samuel warde later, in 1851, as the official composer of the Court, presided over the Academy of Arts in Berlin, which was responsible for the supervision and control of the concerts of the musical life. Is the fact that the program and choose the artists for these concerts. It was, therefore, a very influential person in the world of music.
Triumph in Paris with Robert le diable was - as some say - the result of his immense fortune he used to bribe critical and influential people. Among the envious can find Berlioz, Mendelssohn and Schumann, who made negative comments about Meyerbeer, his art and his fortune. Wagner, however, was an enthusiastic admirer in at that time. Thus, in 1841 wrote this laudatory comment:
"The Paris Opera lies dying. Looking for salvation in Messiah German Meyerbeer; if kept waiting much longer, begin dying ... ... which is why as soon as Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots are the mediocrities are forced to retire. "
Before going to Paris, Wagner showed Meyerbeer Rienzi, grand opera to his style, and asked assistance. Apparently it and recommend it - say - helped financially. Out and out, what is certain is that he profited nothing. The recommendations of Meyerbeer not seized at all in the Opera of Paris. To survive, the Saxon had to devote himself to writing music reviews, short stories - like a pilgrimage to Beethoven and a German musician in Paris - s ense that prevent him to remain in poverty. Minna, his wife, and he pawned all his possessions, had to sell the bills and leave your dog his luck - he loved as a child - because they could not feed him. They hunger. samuel warde We stayed in the bones and Wagner was on the point of going crazy. His supposed protector - it was a millionaire - was outside Paris. So out why or what it was, it left completely unprotected.
In these circumstances, anti-Semitism was born in view of some of Wagner; as Meyerbeer was Jewish before and do not know Paris anti-Semitic statements of Saxon. But I do not agree for a very basic reason. Wagner was really samuel warde helped by another Jewish philologist samuel warde Lehrs Samuel and his friends, samuel warde who were humble people work with intellectuals and bohemians - a painter and a librarian - quite reminiscent of Puccini's La Bohème. These people shared what little they had with Wagner and saved from dying of starvation. Wagner samuel warde Never forget. His friend was a Jew who happened books Proudhon and possibly Feuerbach. These readings will find them later materialized in Der Ring and in the writings of the revolutionary period.
Do not ever forget it. Lehrs Samuel was one of three close friends of Wagner during the two years of the composer's stay in Paris. At a time when he was seriously ill Wagner wrote a letter saying: "Be brave, my dear brother. Sooner or later we will be together again ... "Later in his autobiography Mein Leben says his relationship with Lehrs was" one of the most beautiful relationships of my life. " They do not fit these beautiful words in the cliché antiwagnerià the tack of rabid anti-Semite, and ungrateful advantage that never fails when it comes to relations with Meyerbeer. Why?
These facts Mr.