English: Castle Neuschwanstein Deutsch: Schloss Neuschwanstein Tiếng Việt: Lâu đài Neuschwanstein (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ludwig II with Richard Wagner, the composer of Lohengrin and many other romantic operas, at the piano (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Do you remember all the murals and paintings in Neuschwanstein? They were all from Wagner's opera's (and in turn almost all from medieval sagas, mostly Germanic ones and many Arthurian ones). Dear Ludwig loved his operas because they evoked the majesty and nobility of times past (just like he was doing in the construction of his castles) -- 

I'm not sure if Ludwig expressed thoughts on Judaism -- but dear Rick Wagner certainly did -- Wagner was decidedly an anti-semite. The question remains: to what extent, and how did this play out in his works?

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