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Österreichs neue Musik nach 1945

Author : Markus Grassl
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Österreichs neue Musik nach 1945 written by Markus Grassl and published by Böhlau Verlag Wien. This book was released on 2008 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mit dieser umfassenden Monographie wird einer der bedeutendsten osterreichischen Komponisten der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts gewurdigt und damit auch ein Beitrag zu einer bisher nur in Ansatzen vorliegenden osterreichischen Musikgeschichte der Nachkriegszeit geleistet. In der durchaus reprasentativen Entwicklung Karl Schiskes spiegeln sich die kompositionsgeschichtlichen Tendenzen des Jahrhunderts zwischen der Schreker-Schule und der internationalen Avantgarde der 1960er Jahre. Unter den Kompositionslehrern der Wiener Musikakademie der Vertreter des Fortschritts und eines analytischen und diskursiven Vorgehens im Unterricht, hat Schiske - lernend mit seinen Studenten, eine bedeutende Schule begrundet. So gingen alle wichtigeren osterreichischen Komponisten der Folgegeneration entweder durch seine Klasse oder standen mit ihm in Verbindung. Der Band enthalt Aufsatze, die Schiskes Wirken von vielen Seiten beleuchten, und einen umfangreichen Anhang mit den bisher zum grosseren Teil unveroffentlichten Schriften Schiskes sowie einem ausfuhrlichen Quellen- und Werkverzeichnis.

Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe

Author : Joy H. Calico
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957709
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe written by Joy H. Calico and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw—a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. Schoenberg, a Jewish composer whose oeuvre had been one of the Nazis’ prime exemplars of entartete (degenerate) music, immigrated to the United States and became an American citizen. Both admired and reviled as a pioneer of dodecaphony, he wrote this twelve-tone piece about the Holocaust in three languages for an American audience. This book investigates the meanings attached to the work as it circulated through Europe during the early Cold War in a kind of symbolic musical remigration, focusing on six case studies: West Germany, Austria, Norway, East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Each case is unique, informed by individual geopolitical concerns, but this analysis also reveals common themes in anxieties about musical modernism, Holocaust memory and culpability, the coexistence of Jews and former Nazis, anti-Semitism, dislocation, and the presence of occupying forces on both sides of the Cold War divide.

Operas in German

Author : Margaret Ross Griffel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442247975
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Operas in German written by Margaret Ross Griffel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly three thousand new entries, the revised edition of Operas in German: A Dictionary is the most current encyclopedic treatment of operas written specifically to a German text from the seventeenth century through 2016. Musicologist Margaret Ross Griffel details the operas’ composers, scores, librettos, first performances, and bibliographic sources. Four appendixes then list composers, librettists, authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the opera librettos, and a chronological listing of the entries in the A–Z section. The bibliography details other dictionaries and encyclopedias, performance studies, collections of plot summaries, general studies on operas, sources on locales where opera premieres took place, works on the history of operas in German, and selective volumes on individual opera composers, librettists, producers, directors, and designers. Finally, two indexes list the main characters in each opera and the names of singers, conductors, producers, composers, directors, choreographers, and arrangers. The revised edition of Operas in German provides opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers with an invaluable resource for continued study and enjoyment. As the most current encyclopedic collection of German opera from the seventeenth century through the twenty-first, Operas in German is an invaluable resource for opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers.

Shostakovich and His World

Author : Laurel E. Fay
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691232199
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Shostakovich and His World written by Laurel E. Fay and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure as a musician still being taken. This collection of essays goes far in expanding the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the composer's creativity and art in terms of the expectations--historical, cultural, and political--that forged them. The collection contains documents that appear for the first time in English. Letters that young "Miti" wrote to his mother offer a glimpse into his dreams and ambitions at the outset of his career. Shostakovich's answers to a 1927 questionnaire reveal much about his formative tastes in the arts and the way he experienced the creative process. His previously unknown letters to Stalin shed new light on Shostakovich's position within the Soviet artistic elite. The essays delve into neglected aspects of Shostakovich's formidable legacy. Simon Morrison provides an in-depth examination of the choreography, costumes, décor, and music of his ballet The Bolt and Gerard McBurney of the musical references, parodies, and quotations in his operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki. David Fanning looks at Shostakovich's activities as a pedagogue and the mark they left on his students' and his own music. Peter J. Schmelz explores the composer's late-period adoption of twelve-tone writing in the context of the distinctively "Soviet" practice of serialism. Other contributors include Caryl Emerson, Christopher H. Gibbs, Levon Hakobian, Leonid Maximenkov, and Rosa Sadykhova. In a provocative concluding essay, Leon Botstein reflects on the different ways listeners approach the music of Shostakovich.

Choral Music in the Twentieth Century

Author : Nick Strimple
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671223
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Choral Music in the Twentieth Century written by Nick Strimple and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical works for chorus are among the great masterpieces of 20th-century art. This guide, the first truly comprehensive volume on the choral music of the last century, covers the spectacular range of music for vocal ensembles, from Saint-Saens to Tan Dun. The book will be essential to every choral conductor and a valuable resource for choir members, choral societies and choruses.

Musik im Exil

Author : Chris Walton
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039104925
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Musik im Exil written by Chris Walton and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a symposium held July 9, 2000 in the Hotel Bellevue in Braunwald, Switzerland, organized by the Hans Schaeuble Stiftung, Zentralbibliothek Zeurich, Schweizerischer Tonkeunstlerverein, and Musikwoche Braunwald.

Music Divided

Author : Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933397
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Music Divided written by Danielle Fosler-Lussier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical, and propagandistic responses to the music of Hungary’s most renowned twentieth-century composer, Béla Bartók. She shows how a tense period of political transition plagued Bartók’s music and imperiled those who took a stand on its aesthetic value in the emerging socialist state. Her fascinating investigation of Bartók’s reception outside of Hungary demonstrates that Western composers, too, formulated their ideas about musical style under the influence of ever-escalating cold war tensions. Music Divided surveys Bartók’s role in provoking negative reactions to "accessible" music from Pierre Boulez, Hermann Scherchen, and Theodor Adorno. It considers Bartók’s influence on the youthful compositions and thinking of Bruno Maderna and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and it outlines Bartók’s legacy in the music of the Hungarian composers András Mihály, Ferenc Szabó, and Endre Szervánszky. These details reveal the impact of local and international politics on the selection of music for concert and radio programs, on composers’ choices about musical style, on government radio propaganda about music, on the development of socialist realism, and on the use of modernism as an instrument of political action.

Recomposing German Music

Author : Elizabeth Janik
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900414661X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Recomposing German Music written by Elizabeth Janik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a social history of musical life in Berlin; it investigates the tangled relationship between music and politics in 20th-century Germany, emphasizing the division of Berlin's musical community between east and west in the early Cold War era.

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955

Author : Alexander Golovlev
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000827763
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 written by Alexander Golovlev and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting 'national' music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music’s role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks. Bridging international relations, musical sociology, media studies, and Cold War history, four incisive chapters examine the crossroads of Soviet, French, and Austrian cultural politics and discourse-building, presented in two parts - institutions of musical diplomacy: Soviet and French cultural diplomats in comparison; sounds of music coming to Austria: Soviet and French musicians on tour. Using a communication- and media-oriented approach, this study casts new light, firstly, on the interpretative power of 'receiving' publics and, secondly, on the role of cultural transmitters at different levels. This is a valuable study for those specialising in Russian and East European music and music and politics. It will also appeal to cultural historians and all those interested in the intersections between music, international relations, and Cold War history.

Deutsche Leitkultur Musik?

Author : Albrecht Riethmüller
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515089746
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Deutsche Leitkultur Musik? written by Albrecht Riethmüller and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Im Fokus des Bandes steht die Musikkultur in West- und Ostdeutschland wahrend der Nachkriegszeit - nach dem Ende der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft, im Zeichen von Entnazifizierung und neuen Ansatzen. Zwischen Kontinuitat und Diskontinuitat von Gedanken und Karrieren beleuchtet der Band die Situation der Musik an der Schnittstelle von Zeit- und Musikgeschichte. Das Dilemma, in das die deutsche Musik durch den Glauben an die eigene Uberlegenheit geraten war, spiegelt der Titel mit dem Aufgriff der Formel von der "Deutschen Leitkultur". Inhalt: Vorwort I. Ausklang des Nationalsozialismus: Anselm Gerhard: Die "Vorherrschaft der deutschen Musik" nach 1945 - eine Ironie der Geschichte Horst Weber: Exil und "Leitkultur". Eine historische Skizze Michael Walter / Albrecht Riethmuller: Richard Strauss - Vier letzte Jahre. Ein Gesprach II. Entnazifizierung: David Monod: Americanizing the Patron State? Government and Music under American Occupation, 1945-1953 Michael Custodis: Entnazifizierung an der Kolner Musikhochschule am Beispiel von Walter Trienes und Hermann Unger Thomas Eickhoff: "Mit Sozialismus und Sachertorte ..." Entnazifizierung und musikpolitische Verhaltensmuster nach 1945 in Osterreich Boris von Haken: "The Case of Mr. Rosbaud" - Der Fortgang einer Karriere Joan Evans: Hans Rosbaud and New Music: From 1933 to the Early Postwar Period Friedrich Geiger: Walter Abendroth im Musikleben der Bundesrepublik Michael Custodis: "unter Auswertung meiner Erfahrungen aktiv mitgestaltend": Zum Wirken von Wolfgang Steinecke bis 1950 Frank Schneider: Aufbruch mit Widerspruchen - Neue Musik im Zeichen der Nachkriegspolitik Adelheid von Saldern: "Ein Land der Lebensfreude"? Unterhaltungsmusik im DDR-Radio der 50er Jahre Guido Heldt: "Hallo Fraulein!" - Amerikanische Popularmusik im westdeutschen Nachkriegsfilm Peter Fritzsche: Rock'n'Roll as History Glenn Stanley: Musikgeschichtsschreibung im geteilten Deutschland: Auseinandersetzung mit der jungsten Vergangenheit? Neue Impulse? Flucht ins Unverfangliche?

Musik im Zusammenhang

Author : Klaus Aringer
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN 13 : 3990125540
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Musik im Zusammenhang written by Klaus Aringer and published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Peter Revers ehrt eine der wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten der österreichischen Musikwissenschaft der Gegenwart. Seit fast vier Jahrzehnten prägt er auch international das Fach Musikwissenschaft in Vorträgen und Publikationen, durch Symposien und Forschungsprojekte, als Lehrer und Gutachter. Mit dem Thema "Musik im Zusammenhang" ist ein wesentliches Charakteristikum von Revers' Arbeit gefasst. Sein pluraler wissenschaftlicher Ansatz vermag Zusammenhänge in differenzierter Weise sichtbar zu machen - zwischen Musikformen und -gattungen genauso wie zwischen Musik und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen. Dies spiegelt sich auch in den 52 Beiträgen des Bandes, die sich vielfältig auf die Forschungen des Geehrten beziehen, so u. a. auf die Musik W. A. Mozarts und Gustav Mahlers, auf die Musikgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts und die Interpretationsforschung.

Opera After the Zero Hour

Author : Emily Richmond Pollock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190063769
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Opera After the Zero Hour written by Emily Richmond Pollock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera After the Zero Hour: The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in Postwar West Germany presents opera as a site for the renegotiation of tradition in a politically fraught era of rebuilding. Though the "Zero Hour" put a rhetorical caesura between National Socialism and postwar West Germany, the postwar era was characterized by significant cultural continuity with the past. With nearly all of the major opera houses destroyed and a complex relationship to the competing ethics of modernism and restoration, opera was a richly contested art form, and the genre's reputed conservatism was remarkably multi-faceted. Author Emily Richmond Pollock explores how composers developed different strategies to make new opera "new" while still deferring to historical conventions, all of which carried cultural resonances of their own. Diverse approaches to operatic tradition are exemplified through five case studies in works by Boris Blacher, Hans Werner Henze, Carl Orff, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and Werner Egk. Each opera alludes to a distinct cultural or musical past, from Greek tragedy to Dada, bel canto to Berg. Pollock's discussions of these pieces draw on source studies, close readings, unpublished correspondence, institutional history, and critical commentary to illuminate the politicized artistic environment that influenced these operas' creation and reception. The result is new insight into how the particular opposition between a conservative genre and the idea of the "Zero Hour" motivated the development of opera's social, aesthetic, and political value after World War II.

Yearbook of Transnational History

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683930045
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Yearbook of Transnational History written by Thomas Adam and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This inaugural volume provides readers with articles on topics such as soccer, travel, music, and social policy. These articles highlight the movement of ideas, people, policies, and practices across various cultures and societies and explore the relations and connections, and spaces created by these movements. These articles make clear that historical phenomena from travel to music cannot be contained and explained within just one national setting. The volume offers, further, a number of theoretical and methodological articles that provide insights into the concept of transnational history and the approach of intercultural transfer studies. Last but not least, the volume also includes a number of review articles. These review articles provide an examination of books central to teaching transnational history as well as a historiographical exploration of the impact of transnational history on the field of sports history.

Modern Austrian Literature through the Lens of Adaptation

Author : Catriona Firth
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9401208484
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Modern Austrian Literature through the Lens of Adaptation written by Catriona Firth and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades postwar Austrian literature has been measured against and moulded into a series of generic categories and grand cultural narratives, from nostalgic ‘restoration’ literature of the 1950s through the socially critical ‘anti-Heimat’ novel to recent literary reckonings with Austria’s Nazi past. Peering through the lens of film adaptation, this book rattles the generic shackles imposed by literary history and provides an entirely new critical perspective on Austrian literature. Its original methodological approach challenges the primacy of written sources in existing scholarship and uses the distortions generated by the shift in medium as a productive starting point for literary analysis. Five case studies approach canonical texts in post-war Austrian literature by Gerhard Fritsch, Franz Innerhofer, Gerhard Roth, Elfriede Jelinek, and Robert Schindel, through close readings of their cinematic adaptations, concentrating on key areas of narratological concern: plot, narrative perspective, authorship, and post-modern ontologies. Setting the texts within the historical, cultural and political discourses that define the ‘Alpine Republic’, this study investigates fundamental aspects of Austrian national identity, such as its Habsburg and National Socialist legacies.

AD FONTEM MUSICAE

Author : Stefan Engl
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN 13 : 3990128671
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book AD FONTEM MUSICAE written by Stefan Engl and published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ad fontem musicae – An der Quelle der Musik: das ist die Musiksammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Ihrem langjährigen Leiter Thomas Leibnitz ist diese Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag gewidmet. Sie versammelt musikwissenschaftliche Beiträge renommierter Autorinnen und Autoren, die den Jubilar nicht nur ehren, sondern auch auf seine zahlreichen Interessensgebiete in der Welt der Musik eingehen. Die Wiener Musikgeschichte – und hier vor allem Anton Bruckner – steht im Mittelpunkt der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit von Thomas Leibnitz, der seit 2005 auch Präsident der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft ist. Seine musikhistorischen Kenntnisse spiegeln sich nicht nur in Studien zur Haydn-Hymne, zu Mozarts Requiem und zu Hans Pfitzner wider, sondern auch in der Gestaltung von Ausstellungen und Katalogen zu Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner oder zuletzt Ludwig van Beethoven.

Of Essence and Context

Author : Rūta Stanevičiūtė
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030144712
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Of Essence and Context written by Rūta Stanevičiūtė and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new approach to the intersections between music and philosophy. It features articles that rethink the concepts of musical work and performance from ontological and epistemological perspectives and discuss issues of performing practices that involve the performer’s and listener’s perceptions. In philosophy, the notion of essence has enjoyed a renaissance. However, in the humanities in general, it is still viewed with suspicion. This collection examines the ideas of essence and context as they apply to music. A common concern when thinking of music in terms of essence is the plurality of music. There is also the worry that thinking in terms of essence might be an overly conservative way of imposing fixity on something that evolves. Some contend that we must take into account the varying historical and cultural contexts of music, and that the idea of an essence of music is therefore a fantasy. This book puts forward an innovative approach that effectively addresses these concerns. It shows that it is, in fact, possible to find commonalities among the many kinds of music. The coverage combines philosophical and musicological approaches with bioethics, biology, linguistics, communication theory, phenomenology, and cognitive science. The respective chapters, written by leading musicologists and philosophers, reconsider the fundamental essentialist and contextualist approaches to music creation and experience in light of twenty-first century paradigm shifts in music philosophy.

Composers of the Nazi Era

Author : Michael H. Kater
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195356764
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Composers of the Nazi Era written by Michael H. Kater and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.