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The political orchestra : the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich

By Kronenberg , Fritz , Kenneth; Trümpi

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780226251424, 022625142X
Language
englishgerman
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7630090 bytes)
Pages
0\334
Time added
2019-04-27 23:46:51
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Description

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Trümpi offers new insight into the orchestras' place in the larger political constellation. Trümpi looks first at the decades preceding National Socialist rule, when the competing orchestras, whose rivalry mirrored a larger rivalry between Berlin and Vienna, were called on to represent 'superior' Austro-German music and were integrated into the administrative and social structures of their respective cities - becoming vulnerable to political manipulation in the process. He then turns to the Nazi period, when the orchestras came to play a major role in cultural policies.  Read more...

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