You Can Feel The Boner Behind It | Richard Wagner

Welcome back, dear listeners! Ren and Ginger continue to take on the technical challenges that plague this hellscape we are all trapped in. In the meantime, do you know what Adolf Hitler and Bugs Bunny have in common?

If your answer was an opera composer who couldn’t keep it in his pants and hated Jewish people, then you know your musical history! Richard Wagner may be riding in on some Valkyries, but that’s probably because he’s trying to escape his many debt collectors. Or the husbands of all the women he f***ed.  There were a lot of them.

Citations

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner
• https://eno.org/composers/richard-wagner/
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Wagner-German-composer/Wagners-anti-Semitism
• https://www.monsalvat.no/biogs.htm#JGo
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Wagner-German-composer/Return-from-exile
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Uprising_in_Dresden#Prominent_figures_amongst_the_revolutionaries
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Judenthum_in_der_Musikhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesamtkunstwerk
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121203090712/http://www.smerus.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/vulture_.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Judenthum_in_der_Musikhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Wagner-German-composer/Return-from-exile
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Geyer
• https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/third-reich/wagner-richard/
• https://www.biography.com/musician/richard-wagner
• http://www.wagneroperas.com/indexwagnerbio4.htmlhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-brilliant-troubled-legacy-of-richard-wagner-16686821/
• Podcasts
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wagner/id463700760?i=1000353687627
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/richard-wagner-a-bunch-of-drama-and-ride-of-the-valkyries/id829420186?i=1000313596184 “Richard Wagner, a Bunch of Drama and Ride of the Valkyries” from Salon 97’s “Your Classical Music Adventure” podcast
• Videos
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H40ApNnu5EA “The Ring by Richard Wagner” by Classics Explained
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrEZynfX63Q “Richard Wagner: Adolf Hitler’s Favorite Composer” by Biography
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJ3r0OqItw “BBC Great Composers: Wagner”