Lot n° 658

Wagner, Richard - Das Judenthum in der Musik. Leipzig, J.J. Weber, 1869, half shagreen, flat

Estimation : €200/300
Adjudication : 160 €
Description
gilt spine (fox. throughout, tears in 1st ff., some tears rep., inner margin of 1 p. underlaid). 1st edition under R. Wagner’s name, of this famous essay. this edition by Weber is a greatly expanded version of the original article, published under a pseudonym in 1850 in the “Neue Zeitschrift für Musik”. “Judenthum in der Musik”, in which Wagner attacks Jews in general and the composers giacomo Meyerbeer and Felix Mendelssohn in particular, is regarded as an important landmark in the growth of anti-Semitism in 19th c. Germany.
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