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Wilhelm Furtwängler : art and the politics of the unpolitical / Roger Allen.
Loaned to Another Library ML422.F92 A83 2018
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Roger, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 1886-1954.
- Furtwängler, Wilhelm.
- Conductors (Music)--Germany--Biography.
- Conductors (Music).
- Germany.
- Composers--Germany--Biography.
- Composers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This publication offers a pathbreaking, new intellectual biography of the composer and conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.
- Contents:
- Wilhelm Furtwängler : the historical, cultural, and intellectual background
- Childhood and youth (1886-1911)
- Lübeck and Mannheim (1911-20)
- Furtwängler in the Weimar Republic (1919-33)
- Furtwängler and the Nazi state I (1933-35)
- Furtwängler and the Nazi state II (1935-45)
- Reflection and reaction : Furtwängler in the immediate post-war period (1945-50)
- Furtwängler as symphonist
- 'All greatness is simplicity' (1951-54)
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-273) and index.
- ISBN:
- 178327283X
- 9781783272839
- OCLC:
- 1005110303
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