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Wagner's posthumous legacy has long been complicated by his music's association with the [[Third Reich]], and it is well-known [[Hitler]] was a fan.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/21/classicalmusicandopera-bayreuth-wagner-hitler-nazis "Wagner's heir vows to lay bare her family's Nazi history"]</ref> Wagner's rabidly [[anti-semitism|anti-semitic]] views and writings have given this association verisimilitude, but the question of how great an influence his ideas were on the Nazis, and how much of this can be blamed on Wagner, has remained a controversial one in Wagner studies.
Wagner's posthumous legacy has long been complicated by his music's association with the [[Third Reich]], and it is well-known [[Hitler]] was a fan.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/21/classicalmusicandopera-bayreuth-wagner-hitler-nazis "Wagner's heir vows to lay bare her family's Nazi history"]</ref> Wagner's rabidly [[anti-semitism|anti-semitic]] views and writings have given this association verisimilitude, but the question of how great an influence his ideas were on the Nazis, and how much of this can be blamed on Wagner, has remained a controversial one in Wagner studies.
Modern symphony orchestras are the invention of Wagner, as the art of conducting is, also. Modern film scores attempt to imitate use Wagner's orchestral style.
==Biography==
==Biography==