Source: Judaism in Music
“The Jew has never had an art of his
own, hence never a live of art-enabling import... "So long as the separate
art of music had a real organic life-need in it, down to the epochs of Mozart
and Beethoven, there was nowhere to be found a Jew composer: it was utterly
impossible for an element quiet foreign to that living organism to take a part
in the formative stages of that life. Only when a body's inner death is
manifest, do outside elements win the power of judgment in it - yet merely to
destroy it.
On one thing am I
clear: that is the influence which the Jews have gained upon our mental life,
as displayed in the deflection and falsification of our highest
culture-tendencies. Whether the downfall of our culture can be arrested by a
violent rejection of the destructive alien element, I an unable to decide,
since that would require forces with whose existence I am unacquainted.”
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