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kind of sentimentalism of Italian music,
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and in fact the classicism and coldness
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and pretentiousness in the music of Beethoven.
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And what he found is something new in Wagner.
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So he was attracted to Wager.
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And as he was becoming actually increasingly anti-Semitic,
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under the influence of his last wife,
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Cosima, who was the daughter of Franz Liszt, the composer,
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and was really a pretty evil person.
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And also Wagner was changing.
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He was becoming in some ways
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kind of more Christian or something,