Composers of the Nazi era : eight portraits

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Composers of the Nazi era : eight portraits

Michael H. Kater

Oxford University Press, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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 of a criminal regime-and if so, whether this is evident in their music. He also considers the degrees to which the Nazis politically, socially, economically, and aesthetically succeeded in their treatment of these individuals, whose lives and compositions represent diverse responses to totalitarianism.

目次

  • Preface
  • Werner Egk: The Enigmatic Optimist
  • Paul Hindemith: The Reluctant Emigre
  • 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

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