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Composers of the Nazi era
eight portraits
By Kater, Michael H.
- ISBN
- 978-0-19509-924-9
- Publisher
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1999
With this volume, Kater has completed a remarkable trilogy of books about music during the Nazi era. This final book, the logical successor to The Twisted Muse (LJ 1/97), focuses on the works and activities of eight German/Austrian composers--Egk, Hindemith, Weill, Hartmann, Orff, Pfitzner, Schoenberg, and Strauss--and their relationships to the people and politics of the Third Reich. Each is given his own chapter, with a telling subtitle (e.g., "...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
