Composers of the Nazi Era Eight Portraits

Name: Composers of the Nazi Era Eight Portraits
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ISBN: 9780195152869

ISBN-10: 0195152867

ISBN-13: 9780195152869

Edition: 2002

Authors: Michael H. Kater

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How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? The final book in a critically acclaimed trilogy that includes Different Drummers (OUP 1992) and The Twisted Muse (OUP 1997), this is a detailed study of the often interrelated careers of eight outstanding German composers who lived and worked amid the dictatorship of the Third Reich: Werner Egk, Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Carl Orff, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg, and Richard Strauss. Noted historian Michael H. Kater weighs issues of accommodation and resistance to ask whether these artists corrupted themselves in the service…

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List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface



Werner Egk: The Enigmatic Optimist



Paul Hindemith: The Reluctant Emigri



Kurt Weill: A Survivor on Two Continents



Karl Amadeus Hartmann: The Composer as Dissident



Carl Orff: Man of Legend



Hans Pfitzner: Magister Teutonicus Miser



Arnold Schoenberg: Musician of Contrasts



Richard Strauss: Jupiter Compromised


Conclusion


Notes


Index