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Religious Experience in the Work of Richard Wagner (Hardcover)
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Enthusiasm for the operas of composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
flourished in fin-de-siecle 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 wagnerienne, launched
in 1885. These writings fueled a mystique about Wagner, his music,
and his beliefs. Philosopher Marcel Hebert 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 Hebert's, intended to
explain the complex myth and allegory in Wagner's work and to
elucidate it for a new generation of French spectators. Hebert'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 Hebert'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, Hebert 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, Hebert 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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