As much as I admire Botstein-and I do, greatly-I have to disagree with his assessment regarding Wagner’s influence on Hitler. If you watch the entire documentary from which this interview is uploaded, as an “extra,” there are music scholars who quote chapter and verse about this very subject. And Botstein does say that a scholar on Hitler would know more than he.
Absolutely brilliant!
Listening to Botstein is an education in itself...
Leon Botstein is brilliant. His thoughts on Wagner are thoroughly persuasive and his commentary on Beethoven is spot on.
As much as I admire Botstein-and I do, greatly-I have to disagree with his assessment regarding Wagner’s influence on Hitler. If you watch the entire documentary from which this interview is uploaded, as an “extra,” there are music scholars who quote chapter and verse about this very subject. And Botstein does say that a scholar on Hitler would know more than he.