[Music] Lohengrin, son of Parzifal

[alan.loki at juno.com]

5. Wagner invented Chromatism. Chromatism is, itself, largely evil (see
"Dionysius Rising" by E. Michael Jones (Ignatius Press).
Mr. Jones needs to do some serious study of music.  If he means by "chromaticism" free meandering of musical tones without any apparent tonal (tonic) base, then he is way off-base with Wagner.  If he means freely moving from one tonal base to another with clearly defined tonics, then he is referring to Wagner, but definitely not as the inventor.  See for example Mozart, Tchaikovsky.
Alan, who in his modest way admires greatly the works of the 3 men mentioned above.
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