Ecstatic RINGOFOLIES

Wagner, a special case in Music.
Apart from the Manichean nature of judgments about his work, the Pan-German inspiration admired Germans during the Nazi period and idolâtrerie which he is the object (of worship in view of the concept of pilgrimage performed at Bayreuth).

Well let's be clear: I belong to the Club Anti.

These operas declaim, screaming, flay (sounds like the Visconti period in his "The Damned" revisited by a drill sergeant at the time).
Inspiration Pangerman fed deep feeling 'völkisch' membership to the ground by blood and what followed in (I will avoid talking here of anti-Semitism so common that it is a tautology to say "The Semitic Wagner "He said: Madam W. there is a major role).

Just stop buffet: Wagner, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche and totalitarianism in its version of Evil raises the eternal question of "treason of the clerks" (J. Benda). Optionally Freedom of Thought (Locke, Voltaire, Diderot, Camus, Aron) or sycophants hagiographers (which will change here in the Stalinist period Hyena Typist), namely the Red-Dark Side of the Force (Aragon, Sartre, Daix and some converted dns NP-New Philosophy) and the Black side above the aforementioned.
And Jünger, you will say? ("Yes, and Jiinger?"). For a less thorny actually first by its presence in the trenches (at least it's going to ... like Camus in the Resistance and Aron in London) and then because after 1918 (terminal) becomes a pure Fascist (Private-Plowman) inspired a neoconservative philosophy that crosses paths of Nazism (he recuse himself as did then Von Stauffenberg, Rommel and a few others so late that it can not be attributed to discharge .. .) So sharing online is clear even professed that he never (to my knowledge) a militant anti-Semitism to Celine, the Brassillach or Drieu. Great writer, but Great Witness infréquentable everyday. A man who can read (and reread) which we do not shake hands.

Returning to the main subject ("you polemics, Victor"). The only aspect of Wagner's music which does not entail the desire to stop so are the Preludes and Overtures (if only for their symphonic character, expressiveness themes and operation of what will be a leitmotifs in the work). The lack of openness Regrettably of "The Valkyrie". Klemperer is remarkable (as usual).

In conclusion, even be Ringophile long as it is a tribute to Ringo Starr and the Fab Four.

PS: just to be sure that I understand, I bought into this replica in Woody Allen's "Manhattan Murder" (memory for the film): "When I hear Wagner, it makes me want to invade Poland. "