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Karl Straube (1873-1950) - Germany's Master Organist in Turbulent Times (Hardcover)
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Karl Straube (1873-1950) - Germany's Master Organist in Turbulent Times (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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The first thorough examination of the most renowned and influential
organist in early twentieth-century Germany and of his complex
relationship to his country's tumultuous and shifting
sociopolitical landscape. In the course of a multifaceted career,
Karl Straube (1873-1950) rose to positions of immense cultural
authority in a German musical world caught in unprecedented
artistic and sociopolitical upheaval. Son of a German
harmonium-builder and an intellectually inclined English mother,
Straube established himself as Germany's iconic organ virtuoso by
the turn of the century. His upbringing in Bismarck's Berlin
encouraged him to develop intensive interests in world history and
politics. He quickly became a sought-after teacher, editor, and
confidante to composers and intellectuals, whose work he often
significantly influenced. As the eleventh successor to J. S. Bach
in the cantorate of St. Thomas School, Leipzig, he focused the
choir's mission as curator of Bach's works and, in the unstable
political climate of the interwar years, as international emissary
for German art. His fraught exit from the cantorate in 1939 bore
the scars of his Nazi affiliations and issued in a final decade of
struggle and disillusionment as German society collapsed.
Christopher Anderson's book presents the first richly detailed
examination of Karl Straube's remarkable life, situated against the
background of the dynamic and sometimes sinister nationalism that
informed it. Through extensive examination of primary sources,
Anderson reveals a brilliant yet deeply conflicted musician whose
influence until now has been recognized, even hailed, but little
understood.
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