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Elijah
(Paperback)
Felix Mendelssohn
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A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the
political goals of countries during the three great wars of the
past century "[Mauceri's] writing is more exhilarating than any
helicopter ride we have been on."-Air Mail "Fluently written and
often cogent."-Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal This book offers a
major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century.
John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was
shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War
II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to
the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great
composers who, following World War I, created voices that were
unique and versatile, but superficially simpler. He contends that
the fate of composers during World War II is inextricably linked to
the political goals of their respective governments, resulting in
the silencing of experimental music in Germany, Italy, and Russia;
the exodus of composers to America; and the sudden return of
experimental music-what he calls "the institutional avant-garde"-as
the lingua franca of classical music in the West during the Cold
War.
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