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That Wagner harboured anti-Semitic sentiments is both well known and uncontested within the realm of musicological inquiry. The composer openly articulated his views in a number of publications, most notably Judaism in Music (Das Judentum in der Musik; 1850), in which he identified Jewish musicians as the ultimate source of what he perceived as substanceless music and misplaced values in the arts as a whole. What has remained a controversy, however, is the extent to which Wagner’s anti-Semitism informed his musical compositions. On the one hand, many have contended that Wagner’s anti-Semitism was no more significant to his musical creation ...(100 of 3116 words)