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Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits [Hardcover] Kater, Michael H.
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Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits [Hardcover] Kater, Michael H. Trade paperback - 2000

by Michael H. Kater

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2000. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Oxford University Press, 2000. Near Fine/No DJ. 6.3 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches with 399 pages. Tight binding with clean & unmarked interior pages.
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  • Title Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits [Hardcover] Kater, Michael H.
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition 1ST
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Date 2000
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52569
  • ISBN 9780195099249 / 0195099249
  • Weight 1.81 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.34 x 1.22 in (23.67 x 16.10 x 3.10 cm)
  • Reading level 1850
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects National socialism, Composers - Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99013272
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the publisher

How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate?

Composers of the Nazi Era is the final book in a critically acclaimed trilogy that includes Different Drummers (OUP 1992) and The Twisted Muse (OUP 1997), which won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. Here, historian Michael H. Kater provides a detailed study of the often interrelated careers of eight prominent German composers who lived and worked amid the dictatorship of the Third Reich, or were driven into exile by it: Werner Egk, Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Carl Orff, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg, and Richard Strauss. 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 may be discerned from their music. After chapters discussing the circumstances of each composer individually, Kater concludes with an analysis of the composers' different responses to the Nazi regime and an overview of the sociopolitical background against which they functioned. The final chapter also extends the discussion beyond the end of World War II to examine how the composers reacted to the new and fragile democracy in Germany.

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Citations

  • Choice, 09/01/2000, Page 138
  • Library Journal, 10/01/1999, Page 96
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/11/1999, Page 69

About the author

Michael H. Kater is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the Centre for German and European Studies, York University, Toronto. He has published widely on modern Germany and is a Guggenheim Fellow as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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