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...Wagner were living today, he would not have fallen in with the Nazis," Leinsdorf said. "Wagner, like all great artists, was an individualist, and individualists have no place in Germany today," he stated. Wagner would probably have chosen to leave Germany, as more than one writer and composer has already done, rather than be forced to compose under the dictates of the Nazis, according to Leinsdorf...
...There would be no point in banning Wagnerian music during the war merely in the grounds that Wagner was a German," Erich Leinsdorf, the world's leading Wagnerian conductor, who is now in Boston to lead three of the Metropolitan's German productions this week, said in a special interview yesterday afternoon over the Crimson Network...
...there anything typically German in the characters in Wagner's music dramas, Leinsdorf asserted. "The acceptance of Wagner all over the world," he pointed out, "indicates very clearly that his characters are more than merely nationalistic symbols." Wagnerian characters are not German, but are drawn almost completely from Scandinavian folk-lore...
...Leinsdorf became the Met's leading German conductor in 1939, and has broadcast with the N. B. C. Orchestra and other musical groups as well as leading Wagnerian productions with the New York company. On various occasions he has stepped from his German role to conduct Italian and French opera...
Trained in Vienna, the maestro worked under both Bruno Walter and the great Toscanini, before being recommended to the Metropolitan in 1938. After a short period of adjustment, Leinsdorf emerged as a leading man in the company's staff, his versatility being complemented by his understanding and genius for Wagner...