Thanks for the correction. I've gotta get back to the one or two Wagner bios I have because my husband and I are fans of opera. I've forgotten some of the details of his genuis and his truly despicable character - which even people of his generation acknowledged.
Wagner, personally, was a creep. Decent men don't sleep with their friends' wives, much less spawn three children with them before the divorce.
A lot of his anti-Semitism was borne out of a personal grudge against a French-Jewish composer named Meyerbeer, who beat out Wagner for attention in Paris early in his career. Oddly, most of Wagner's operas were premiered by a Jewish conductor (don't recall the name at the moment), so he evidently didn't have a problem with Jews who were on his side ... go figure.