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Zusatztext Kater's background knowledge is impressive, and he refuses to oversimplify of to make facile judgements ... well worth reading. Informationen zum Autor 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 several historical subjects, and is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Klappentext 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 theoften 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 weighsissues 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 thecomposers' 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. Zusammenfassung How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can an artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? This text provides a detailed study of the often interrelated careers of eight outstanding German composers who lived and worked amid the Third Reich....
