Abstract
When we young Austrian Jewish artists grew up, our self-esteem suffered very much from the pressure of certain circumstances. It was the time when Richard Wagner's work started its victorious career, and the success of his music and poems was followed by an infiltration of hisWeltanschauung, of his philosophy. You were no true Wagnerian if you did not believe in his philosophy, in the ideas ofErlösung durch Liebe, salvation by love; you were not a true Wagnerian if you did not believe inDeutschtum, in Teutonism; and you could not be a true Wagnerian without being a follower of his anti-Semitic essay,Das Judentum in der Musik, ‘Judaism in Music’. … You have to understand the effect of such statements on young artists.
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