Composers of the Nazi Era - Eight Portraits (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2000
First published:	December 1999
Authors:	Michael H Kater (Distinguished Research Professor of History, Centre for German and European Studies)
Dimensions:	241 x 164 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	414
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-509924-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Fascism & Nazism Books > Music > Composers & musicians
LSN:	0-19-509924-9
Barcode:	9780195099249

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