Music and Nazism : art under tyranny, 1933-1945 / edited by Michael H. Kater and Albrecht Riethmüller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kater, Michael H., 1937-

Riethmüller, Albrecht

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Germany--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Music.

National socialism and music--Congresses.

National socialism and music.

Music and state--Germany--20th century--Congresses.

Music and state.

Germany.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

328 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Laaber : Laaber, 2003.

Contents:

Hitler's Wagner / Hans Rudolf Vaget

National Socialist discussion on the "German quality" in music / Bernd Sponheuer

Distorted sublime / Reinhold Brinkmann

Aesthetic premises of a Nazi conception of music / Giselher Schubert

Very German fate of a composer : Hans Pfitzner / Jens Malte Fischer

Musical life in Berlin from Weimar to Hitler / Pamela M. Potter

International with national emphasis / Joan Evans

Hardly heroes / Guido Heldt

Past and present of Hausmusik in the Third Reich / Celia Applegate

Wagner research as "service to the people" / Stephen McClatchie

Music publishing and the Nazis / Kim H. Kowalke

Stefan Wolpe : broken sequences / Austin Clarkson

In which camp is Austria? / Claudia Maurer Zenck

Swiss music scene in the 1930s / Theo Mäusli

Stefan Zweig and the fall of the Reich Music Chamber President, Richard Strauss / Albrecht Riethmüller

Verklärte Nacht / David Monod.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, York University, Toronto, Oct. 14-17, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3890075169

OCLC:

51888291