Symphonic aspirations
Subtitle: German music and politics, 1900-1945
By: Karen Painter.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780674026612
Subjects: Music -- Germany -- 20th century -- History and criticism; National socialism and music; Music -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-342) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tradition in a modern age : Bruckner and Mahler at the fin de siècle; title: Symphonic idealism in crisis; title: Symphonic conventions of a world past; title: Sensuality and redemption; title: The politics of tradition : Mahler and Bruckner, 1914-1933; title: Mahler's progressive legacy and the aestheticization of violence; title: Bruckner's nationalist legacy and the aestheticization of space; title: Symphonic traditions under National socialism; title: Symphonic ambitions and Hindemith's Mathis der Mahler symphony; title: Symphonic defeat.