Composers of the Nazi era
Subtitle: eight portraits
By: Michael H. Kater.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Composers -- Germany -- Biography; Music -- Germany -- 20th century -- History and criticism; National socialism
Genres: Biography.
Description: "How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate?" "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.".

"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-377) and index.
Table of contents: title: Werner Egk : the enigmatic opportunist; title: Paul Hindemith : the reluctant emigré; title: Kurt Weill : a survivor on two continents; title: Karl Amadeus Hartmann : the composer as dissident; title: Carl Orff : man of legend; title: Hans Pfitzner : Magister Teutonicus Miser; title: Arnold Schoenberg : musician of contrasts; title: Richard Strauss : Jupiter compromised.