Enthusiasm for the operas of composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) flourished in fin-de-si???cle France, fed by fascination for the medieval history and literature that inspired his work. By the 1890s, "pilgrimages" to Wagner's burial city of Bayreuth, Germany, home of a regular festival of his work, were a rite of passage for musicians and the upper crust. French admirers promoted Wagner's ideas in journals such as La Revue wagn???rienne, launched in 1885. These writings fueled a mystique about Wagner, his music, and his ...
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Enthusiasm for the operas of composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) flourished in fin-de-si???cle France, fed by fascination for the medieval history and literature that inspired his work. By the 1890s, "pilgrimages" to Wagner's burial city of Bayreuth, Germany, home of a regular festival of his work, were a rite of passage for musicians and the upper crust. French admirers promoted Wagner's ideas in journals such as La Revue wagn???rienne, launched in 1885. These writings fueled a mystique about Wagner, his music, and his beliefs. Philosopher Marcel H???bert developed his Religious Experience in the Work of Richard Wagner (1895) from this background of sustained popular interest in Wagner, an interest that had intensified with the return of his operas to the Paris stage. Newspaper debates about the impact of Wagner's ideas on French society often stressed the links between Wagner and religion. These debates inspired works like H???bert's, intended to explain the complex myth and allegory in Wagner's work and to elucidate it for a new generation of French spectators. H???bert's discussion of Wagner, written for a popular audience, might seem an anomaly in light of his better-known academic philosophical writings. Yet Wagner's use of myth and symbol, as well as his ability to write musical dramas that evoked emotional as well as cognitive response, resonated with H???bert's symbolist approach to dogma, and the appeal to religious experience characteristic of Modernist thinkers in general. By writing about Wagner to discuss these themes, H???bert caught the interest of the educated readership who shared his concern about the clash of ancient faith and modern thinking, and who were receptive to his argument that both could be reconciled through his revisionist approach. Thus, H???bert turned Wagner and his work into a vehicle for popularizing the Modernist vision of framing religion through experience as well as knowledge.
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