He’s actually treated exactly as these figures should be, presented as a genius while being sure to mention his dark side in context, not gratuitously (see No. 1 below); I only gave him as an example of a flawed artist, and it would blow an enormous hole in modern music to cancel him given that he rewrote the chromatic vocabulary in his operas, although his works were unofficially banned in Israel until a great musician programmed one of his works, probably the Siegfried Idyll, after a concert to which he said the audience could remain or leave as they liked. Notably, his treatise On Jewry in Music is included in the official numbered catalogue of his works. At least I’m pretty sure; he did write a treatise with that title. A damnatio memoriae would be a loss to history and nobody can obliterate his aere-perennius apotheotic might of intrllect and od art.

1. Those writing about the early president usually miss the mark, either over- or underplaying slavery, either preachy-liberal or count-only-the-sunny-hours. It’s a hard balance to get right, especially since they’re our founders and you have to tread carefully.