Richard Wagner’s great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which includes a composition by his “anti-semitic” great-grandfather.
Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim is leading Monday’s performance at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, which is to include A Survivor from Warsaw by Arnold Schoenberg alongside the prelude to Wagner’s Lohengrin.
The music was chosen to evoke memories of less fortuitous November 9 anniversaries, including the “Night of Broken Glass” in 1938, when Jewish homes, shops and synagogues throughout Germany were destroyed by rampaging Nazis.
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