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He was a nominal Protestant

Posted by Sick Rose on 2024-March-6 02:16:46, Wednesday
In reply to Nigga please.....we KNOW how it ends...... posted by Django on 2024-March-5 10:25:04, Tuesday

He was baptized a Lutheran at the very church where Bach had served as the director of music.

He never formally renounced the faith -- indeed when Cosima married him, she had to renounce her Catholicism and formally convert to the Lutheran faith -- which distressed her father Liszt who had, by that point, became an abbé in the Catholic Church.

Die Meistersinger is the greatest portrayal in all art of an idealized Lutheran community; the opening scene is laid in a Lutheran church.

Parsifal is, of course, suffused with the aura of Catholicism but is not actually Catholic -- in fact, the Grail scenes can make Catholics uncomfortable since they can come across as kind of parody of the Mass. The theology of the opera is almost more Buddhist than Catholic (he had a pretty good working knowledge of Buddhism and indeed had toyed with a further opera based on an incident in the life of the Buddha -- alas, he died before he could write it.)

As for Die Gotterdammerung, yeah, that's probably where we're headed although there is no one among our ruling elites with the stature of Wotan (or for that matter, Alberich or Hagen.) A bunch of sniveling Mimes and Gunthers.

SR
Sick Rose

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