Ebook {Epub PDF} The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich by Michael H. Kater

 · These questions and their implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Great and small--from Valentin Grimm, a struggling clarinetist, to Richard Strauss, renowned composer--are examined by Kater, sometimes in intimate detail, and the lives and decisions of Nazi Germany's professional musicians 4/5(3). The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich. By MICHAEL H. KATER. Oxford University Press. National Socialism, the Third Reich, and the Music Scene. Music, Economics, and. Michael H. Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, ). Pp. xv, Cloth $ Historians of music culture in the Third Reich often have to double as private eyes, responsible .

The Twisted Muse Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich Michael H. Kater. Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent? These questions and their implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Great and small―from Valentin Grimm, a struggling clarinetist, to Richard Strauss, renowned composer―are examined by Kater, sometimes in intimate detail, and the lives and. Michael H. Kater's book The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich sets out to reexamine classical music making in Nazi Germany. Kater uses already existing research, primary source documents (such as letters and newspapers), and personal interviews with survivors or their families to support his argument that Nazism.

These questions and their implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Great and small—from Valentin Grimm, a struggling clarinetist, to Richard Strauss, renowned composer—are examined by Kater, sometimes in intimate detail, and the lives and decisions of Nazi Germany's professional musicians are laid out before the reader. These questions and their implications are explored in Michael H. Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Kater examines the value of music for the Nazi regime and the degree to which the regime attained a positive propaganda and palliative effect through the manner in which it manipulated its musicians, and by extension, German music. This work will be of interest to scholars and general readers eager to understand Nazi Germany, to. This compelling book examines a wide variety of musicians - from struggling performers to world-renowned composers - and how they and their music interacted with the Third Reich. Kater looks at the degrees to which these musicians complied, collaborated, or resisted.