[1133W-{6/11/82} CD Vol. II, p. 870]
[P. 870] {FEUER} {anti-FEUER/NIET} {SCHOP} “ ‘But music is finished,’ he exclaimssorrowfully, ‘and I don’t know whether my dramatic explosions can postpone the end. It has lasted only a very short time. Yet these things have nothing to do with time and space.’ He recalls how in times of deepest trouble the German people discovered this refuge, this other world.” [1133W-{6/11/82} CD Vol. II, p. 870]
[1134W-{9/5/82} CD Vol. II, p. 907]
[P. 907] {FEUER} “He then plays Siegfried’s awakening of Bruennhilde, is pleased with the character of this work, its trueness to Nature: ‘Like two animals,’ he says of Br. and Sieg. ‘Here there is no doubt, no sin,’ he continues, and in his Wotan he recognises the true god of the Aryans.” [1134W-{9/5/82} CD Vol. II, p. 907]
[1135W-{9/14/82} CD Vol. II, p. 910]
[P. 910] {FEUER} “When there is mention on the train of the Wagnerites’ preference for ‘T. und I.’ even over ‘Parsifal,’ R. says: “Oh, what do they know? One might say that Kundry already experienced Isolde’s Liebestod a hundred times in her various reincarnations.’ “ [1135W-{9/14/82} CD Vol. II, p. 910]
[1136W-{10/17/82} CD Vol. II, p. 932]
[P. 932] {FEUER} “He deplores the foolishness of the public, which cares only for ‘Die Walkuere,’ but praises Herr Neumann, who is disseminating the whole work abroad. ‘How curious that it should have to be a Jew!’ he says.” [1136W-{10/17/82} CD Vol. II, p. 932]
[1137W-{10/22/82} CD Vol. II, p. 935]
[P. 935] {FEUER} “ ‘One cannot paint Christ, but one can portray him in music.’ – I say that I see it as evidence of his great and so significant artistic sagacity that he abandoned the figure of Christ and created Parsifal instead: ‘To have Chr. Sung by a tenor – what a disgusting idea!’ he says.” [1137W-{10/22/82} CD Vol. II, p. 935]
[1138W-{11/15/82} CD Vol. II, p. 952]
[P. 952] {SCHOP} {FEUER} “… he asked himself how the Jews had ever come to assume such importance in our country, where there are still some tough and talented tribes to be found! R. answers himself: Because of the Old Testament, because we have accepted it.” [1138W-{11/15/82} CD Vol. II, p. 952]
