Classical Music In Weimar Germany

Author : Brendan Fay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350114814

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Classical Music in Weimar Germany by Brendan Fay Pdf

From Hitler's notorious fondness for Wagner's operas to classical music's role in fuelling German chauvinism in the era of the world wars, many observers have pointed to a distinct relationship between German culture and reactionary politics. In Classical Music in Weimar Germany, Brendan Fay challenges this paradigm by reassessing the relationship between conservative musical culture and German politics. Drawing upon a range of archival sources, concert reviews and satirical cartoons, Fay maps the complex path of classical music culture from Weimar to Nazi Germany-a trajectory that was more crooked, uneven, or broken than straight. Through an examination of topics as varied as radio and race to nationalism, this book demonstrates the diversity of competing aesthetic, philosophical and political ideals held by German music critics that were a hallmark of Weimar Germany. Rather than seeing the cultural conservatism of this period as a natural prelude for the violence and destruction later unleashed by Nazism, this fascinating book sheds new light on traditional culture and its relationship to the rise of Nazism in 20th-century Germany.

Author : Brendan Fay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784539929

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Classical Music in Weimar Germany by Brendan Fay Pdf

Author : Bryan Randolph Gilliam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994-07-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521420121

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Music and Performance During the Weimar Republic by Bryan Randolph Gilliam Pdf

Composers, performers, and audiences alike sought to negate their recent post in various ways: by affirming modern technology (electronic or mechanical music, sound recordings, radio, and film), exploring music of a more remote past (principally Baroque music), and celebrating popular music (particularly jazz). The essays contained in this volume address these fundamental themes.

Author : Celia Applegate,Pamela Potter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0226021300

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Music and German National Identity by Celia Applegate,Pamela Potter Pdf

Concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire: composers like the three "Bs" of classical music, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, all of whom are German. Over the past three centuries, many supporters of German music have even nurtured the notion that the German-speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music. This book brings together seventeen contributors from the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, history, and German literature to explore these questions: how music came to be associated with German identity, when and how Germans came to be regarded as the "people of music," and how music came to be designated "the most German of arts." Unlike previous volumes on this topic, many of which focused primarily on Wagner and Nazism, the essays here are wide-ranging and comprehensive, examining philosophy, literature, politics, and social currents as well as the creation and performance of folk music, art music, church music, jazz, rock, and pop. The result is a striking volume, adeptly addressing the complexity and variety of ways in which music insinuated itself into the German national imagination and how it has continued to play a central role in the shaping of a German identity. Contributors to this volume: Celia Applegate Doris L. Bergen Philip Bohlman Joy Haslam Calico Bruce Campbell John Daverio Thomas S. Grey Jost Hermand Michael H. Kater Gesa Kordes Edward Larkey Bruno Nettl Uta G. Poiger Pamela Potter Albrecht Riethmüller Bernd Sponheuer Hans Rudolf Vaget

Author : Kyle Frackman,Larson Powell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571139160

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Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic by Kyle Frackman,Larson Powell Pdf

Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption that classical music functioned purely as an ideological support for the state.

Author : Michael Haas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300154313

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Forbidden Music by Michael Haas Pdf

DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div

Author : Alexander Rehding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199888894

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Music and Monumentality by Alexander Rehding Pdf

This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory. In examples including Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner and Bruckner, Rehding explores how monumentality contributes to an experiential music history and how it conveys the sublime to the listening public.

Author : Helma Kaldewey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108486187

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A People's Music by Helma Kaldewey Pdf

Chronicles the history of jazz over the complete lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, for the first time.

Author : George Titus Ferris
Publisher : Binker North
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038262957

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The Great German Composers by George Titus Ferris Pdf

The Great German Composers is a classical music biography collection by George T. Ferris. The canon of classical music has always been brimming with works of musicians and composers of German origin. From 16th century icons Bach and Handel through to Wagner, Germany has consistently produced the most gifted and influential musicians in the world. Bach invented modern music and this music brought to its artistic peaks by fellow Germans, Mozart and Beethoven. The lives and achievements of these composers are described here along with other musical luminaries such as Chopin, Gluck, Hayden and Weber. This fascinating volume is a must read for anyone for whom music is an essential part of life. Contents: Bach -- Handel -- Gluck -- Haydn -- Mozart -- Beethoven -- Schubert, Schumann, and Franz -- Chopin -- Weber -- Mendelssohn -- Richard Wagner. Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 - 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. After becoming an orphan at age 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother, after which he continued his musical development in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and, for longer stretches of time, at courts in Weimar--where he expanded his repertoire for the organ--and Köthen--where he was mostly engaged with chamber music.

Author : Michael H. Kater,Distinguished Research Professor of History at the Centre for German and European Studies Michael H Kater
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195099249

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Composers of the Nazi Era by Michael H. Kater,Distinguished Research Professor of History at the Centre for German and European Studies Michael H Kater Pdf

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 poetically, socially, economically, and aesthetically succeeded in their treatment of these individuals, whose lives and compositions represent diverse responses to totalitarianism.

Author : Ulrike Weckel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805393726

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Audiences of Nazism by Ulrike Weckel Pdf

Traces of audience responses to propaganda in the Third Reich are particularly sparse given that the public sphere was so highly regulated. By taking an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to found historical sources of audiences’ responses, the contributions to Audiences of Nazism critically approach the effectiveness of the Nazi media. The volume presents a comprehensive array of case studies including, but not limited to, Jewish responses to anti-Semitic media, personal reports from Nazi party rallies, responses to “degenerate art” exhibitions, and the afterlife of visual documentations of Nazi crimes. It uncovers the target groups of certain Nazi media products; how effective these products were in disseminating propaganda; and their chances to win over readers, listeners, and spectators not yet convinced of Nazism.

Author : Colin Storer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350172371

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A Short History of the Weimar Republic by Colin Storer Pdf

It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise of extremist political movements. At the same time, however, a vibrant cultural scene flourished, which continues to influence the international art world through the aesthetics of Expressionism and the Bauhaus movement. In the fields of art, literature, theatre, cinema, music and architecture – not to mention science – Germany became a world leader during the 1920s, while her perilous political and economic position ensured that no US or European statesman could afford to ignore her. Incorporating original research and a synthesis of the existing historiography, this revised edition will provide students and a general readership with a clear and concise introduction to the history of the first German Republic.

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc.
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307928672

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Fodor's See It Germany by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Pdf

A practical illustrated guide that brings Germany to life. Essential information about sightseeing, dining, and hotels is all conveniently organized by region.making it easy for you to find the details you need when you are on the go.

Author : Damon J. Phillips
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691150888

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Shaping Jazz by Damon J. Phillips Pdf

There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get rerecorded by many musicians? Shaping Jazz answers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated yet crucial roles played by initial production and markets--in particular, organizations and geography--in the development of early twentieth-century jazz. Damon Phillips considers why places like New York played more important roles as engines of diffusion than as the sources of standards. He demonstrates why and when certain geographical references in tune and group titles were considered more desirable. He also explains why a place like Berlin, which produced jazz abundantly from the 1920s to early 1930s, is now on jazz's historical sidelines. Phillips shows the key influences of firms in the recording industry, including how record companies and their executives affected what music was recorded, and why major companies would rerelease recordings under artistic pseudonyms. He indicates how a recording's appeal was related to the narrative around its creation, and how the identities of its firm and musicians influenced the tune's long-run popularity. Applying fascinating ideas about market emergence to a music's commercialization, Shaping Jazz offers a unique look at the origins of a groundbreaking art form.

Author : Detlev Peukert
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0809015560

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The Weimar Republic by Detlev Peukert Pdf

About half of Kolb's compact book is devoted to a "Historical Survey," chronologically divided at the conventional watersheds of 1923-24 and 1929-30. A briefer second part, a historiographical essay in seven topical chapters, is followed by a seven-page chronology, a 676-item classified and topical bibliography, and an index. The bibliography, updated to February 1987, includes some English-language titles not in the original German edition, and is a list of tremendous value. Frequent references to individual entries (as well as to some works not found there) tie the bibliography to the historiographical essay, which is characterized by fair and judicious appraisal of interpretations of the period, even when Kolb clearly disagrees. There is a chapter on the revolution of 1918 and its aftermath in the first section, and one on art and mass culture in the second; each section of the survey also has one chapter focusing on foreign policy, and one on domestic developments.