chauvenistic

Updated: May 21, 2025

He was well-suited for this role. Highly intelligent, sophisticated, complex, capable of imagining whole systems of humanistic philosophy, and with an intense need to communicate his ideas, he created great operas which, in addition to their artistic merits, served the peculiar role of promoting a jingoistic, chauvenistic kind of Germanism.

Franz Liszt - Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2