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 wo...
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.
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(Hans Pfitzner )was quick to insult colleagues behind their backs, as when he said about conductor Erich Kleiber, who in 1923 stood to conduct his opera Die Rose vom Liebesgarten in Berlin, that he, Kleiber, was not his friend but would be one as soon as it was of service to him to play host to a genius. Pfitzner openly called Hans Knappertsbusch a liar because he thought the Munich conductor had insulted him in the Eastern provinces. And he chastised lesser conductors for oversights ordinary mortals would have found too trivial to mention. Thomas Mann broke with him in 1925 when it was clear that under no circumstances would Pfitzner, unlike Mann, give the Weimar Republic even the slightest chance of political survival. (查看原文)
0 有用 Swift_Swirl 2012-06-11 21:35:57
如果从里面专挑关于犹太人的各种言论，大概可以凑一本“德式没品笑话“。
0 有用 Swift_Swirl 2012-06-11 21:35:57
如果从里面专挑关于犹太人的各种言论，大概可以凑一本“德式没品笑话“。